Lines on Thomas Hartley Montgomery - Crime & punishment - English ballads

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(1) Lines on Thomas Hartley Montgomery

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https://digital.nls.uk/74892838

Description

" ... his last night in Omagh jail". Montomery was hanged on the 26th. August 1873 for the murder of William Glass - confirmed by the 'Times Digital Archive' in an article dated Wednesday, Aug 27, 1873. First line reads: Dark and dismal was the skies.

Shelfmark

Crawford.EB.2045

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Form / genre:

Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides

Dates / events:

1873 [Date printed]
1873 [Date/event in text]
1800-1900 [Date printed]

Places:

Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place printed]
Europe > United Kingdom > Northern Ireland > Omagh > Omagh (inhabited place) [Place in text]

Subject / content:

Ballads
Executions (events)
Murders

Person / organisation:

Montgomery, Thomas Hartley, -1873 [Subject of text]
Glass, William, -1871 [Subject of text]

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English ballads

Description

Collection of 2,300 broadside ballads, mostly printed in England in the 19th century. Topics range from courtship, crime, disasters and emigration to fashion, theatre, politics, laments sports and old age. Includes ballads on Scotland and Ireland. Part of the Crawford Collections on deposit from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.

Attribution and copyright:

Reproduced with permission from materials on loan to the National Library of Scotland from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.

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