Trials.- 'London Monster'.- Trial (The) of Renwick Williams, (Commonly called The Monster)...For assaulting and wounding Miss Ann Porter. Taken in Short-Hand by L. Williams, engraved portrait frontispiece very slightly offset, a few spots, some very light browning, disbound, housed in a cloth folder, for D. Brewman, [?1790] § Compleat Collection (A) Of Remarkable Tryals Of the Most Notorious Malefactors at the Sessions-House in the Old Baily..., vol. 1 & 2 only (of 4), embossed stamp of The Durdans to head of titles, pencil note "Beckford sale 1883 lot 2744" to vol. 1 front free endpaper, trimmed a few times into headline, occasional light soiling or marginal staining, some spotting, light browning, early 19th century polished calf, spines gilt in compartments, light rubbing to extremities, for J. Philips, 1718; and others on various trials, v.s. (7)
⁂ In the spring of 1789 reports of knife attacks on fashionable London women began to surface in the newspapers, the victims secretly wounded on different parts of their bodies by a man with a small knife. These attacks elicited a great media frenzy and public interest in them grew. In December 1790, florist Rhynwick Williams, nicknamed the 'Monster', was convicted of assault on one of the women, Miss Ann Porter, and sentenced to six years in prison. For the second mentioned item, third and fourth volumes were published in 1721, continuing the series up to 1720.
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