Murder.- Execution.- The Lives Trial & Execution, of Pickford's Two Boatmen, who suffered Apirl [sic] the 11th, 1840 at Stafford, for the Wilful Murder of Christina Collins, woodcut illustrations of the attack on Christina Collins, and the execution of the boatmen with hand-colouring, a few small holes affecting text and image, a few repairs, light staining or soiling and browning, some chipping and tearing to margins, occasionally into text and sometimes with loss, laid down, approx. 500 x 375 mm, Birmingham, Wright, 1840.

⁂ Christina Collins was found, near Rugeley, allegedly assaulted and murdered on June 17th 1839, while she was travelling to meet her husband in London. George Thompson and James Owen were tried and executed for the crime, with nearly 10,000 people in attendance of their execution. Included in this broadside, below the account of the trial and execution, is a poem on the same topic. The murder and executions seemingly inspired the Inspector Morse episode 'The Wench is Dead'.