In making peace with his God in heaven.

O had you witness’d the parting hour,

Of this wretched man and his nine children dear,

Your hearts would break to think that they might see,

Their father hung upon a gallows tree.


J. Harkness, Printer, Preston.


EXECUTION OF
JOHN GLEESON WILSON,
At Kirkdale Gaol, on Saturday, September 15th, 1849, the Murderer of Mrs. Hinrichson, her Two Children, and Female Servant.