The assailant is strangling his victim with a whip-thong; nearby is a typical roadside gallows with two highwaymen dangling from the cross-tree
(From the Newgate Calendar)

LIVES
OF THE
MOST REMARKABLE
CRIMINALS

LIVES
OF THE
MOST REMARKABLE
CRIMINALS

Who have been Condemned and Executed
for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking,
Street Robberies, Coining or other offences

Collected from Original Papers and
Authentic Memoirs, and
Published in
1735

LIVESOF THEMOST REMARKABLECRIMINALS

Who have been Condemned and Executedfor Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking,Street Robberies, Coining or other offences

Collected from Original Papers andAuthentic Memoirs, andPublished in1735

LIVES
OF THE
MOST REMARKABLE
CRIMINALS

Who have been Condemned and Executed
for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking,
Street Robberies, Coining or other offences

Collected from Original Papers and
Authentic Memoirs, and
Published in
1735