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Trial and Execution of Thomas Barrett, Who First Committed a Rape on the Person of Mrs. Houghton, of Lunenburg, an Aged Lady of 70 Years, and Then Foully Murdered Her to Conceal His Crime, on Sunday Evening, Feb. 18, 1844, and Who Was Hung at Worcester, …

Trial and Execution of Thomas Barrett, Who First Committed a Rape on the Person of Mrs. Houghton, of Lunenburg, an Aged Lady of 70 Years, and Then Foully Murdered Her to Conceal His Crime, on Sunday Evening, Feb. 18, 1844, and Who Was Hung at Worcester, …

$ 200.00
28 pp. Sewn binding. Includes a rather sinister woodcut illustration of a coffin on the front wrapper. An account of the trial and execution of Thomas Barrett, who was convicted of rape and murder. Interestingly, despite rape being a capital crime in Massachusetts, Barrett seems to have the first rapist executed there after being convicted, and then likely only because of the attached murder charge.