True and Particular Account of a Barbarous, Bloody, and Inhuman Murder, by Amos Pickles
Account of Amos Pickles murdering his own child near High Road Well, Halifax.
Author: Unknown
Date: 25 February 1784
Location: Halifax
Format: Handbill
Document ID: 100425
Library ID: P343 R134
An 18th century handbill, describing a barbarous act of infanticide and butchery by a father in 1784. No punishment is described, but there follows a plea to take warning not to "give way to jealousy, anger, revenge, or such like passions; but resist the temptations of the Devil".
