MURDER IN LEEDS.


Shocking Parricide. A True and Particular account of a most barbarous and INHUMAN MURDER.... Birmingham: Taylor, Printer, Moor-street, January 1818. Printed broadside, 253 x 180 mm. Upper corners creased, light thumbsoiling, mounting remnants on verso.Detailing a murder committed by James Cheesborough of his mother, and the attempted murder of his Uncle, in Leeds, Yorkshire. "In a small cottage on the side of Grange Moor ... James Cheesborough, a young man about 27 years of age, and of week intellect, resided with his mother and his mother's brother." The dispute arose over tobacco, which his mother had just purchased and refused to share with her son. Cheesborough attempted to steal the package from his mother, and when his uncle interceded, he struck the older man with a coal rake in the head an arm before turning the instrument on his mother. The broadside includes all the gory details of the attack, including the news that the mother "languished in great agony" for another day before dying.