A correct account of the Horrid Murder of Catherine Reilly by her own Husband, With the Inquest held on the body

Crime broadside printed with an account of the murder of Catherine Reilly by her husband Thomas (aged 50) together with details of the post-mortem on the body carried out by Mr Witmore the Parish Surgeon and the inquest held on Saturday 16th June at the Bird in Hand, Northampton Street. Printed by John Vandenburg Quick the broadside includes a woodcut engraving of the post-mortem and also records witnesses accounts of the crime. At his trial at the Old Bailey Thomas was found guilty of murdering his wife at their home in Compton Street, Clerkenwell and publicly executed outside the Old Bailey on 11th July 1832. The post-mortem concluded that Catherine had suffered a beating by her husband that caused one of her ribs to break and puncture her lungs.

Broadsides recounting particularly gruesome and scandalous crimes and murders were mass printed and cheaply sold to newshungry Londoners. Primarily published by a small number of printers many of whom, such as Thomas Birt, James Catnach and James Pitts were based around the Seven Dials area of London the spelling and grammar was often poor and the details not always accurate.