Just Published the Particulars of the Coroner's Inquest of the Alleged Murder. Committed on the Body of John Peacock Wood a Waterman

Crime broadside printed with details of the coroner's inquest into the death of the waterman John Peacock Wood held at the Wheat Sheaf, Star Street, Lower Shadwell on 13th July 1833. The broadside reports that a drunken Wood was seemingly murdered by the 'New Police' after he had been removed with some force by them from the White Hart public house and taken to Wapping police station. The inquest concluded that Wood died from fractured skull and implicated six policemen in his murder. The broadside, printed by Daniel Henry Carpue, includes a woodcut engraving of the murder scene with the murderer with a policeman, his truncheon raised, standing over the drunken waterman. Typically the broadside concludes with a moral poem.

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. It is interesting to note that, in 1833 four years after the establishment of the Metropolitan police it was still being popularly referred to as 'the New Police'.