Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Great Crime of 1860: Being a Summary of the Facts Relating to the Murder Committed at Road; A Critical Review of Its Social and Scientific Aspects; And an Authorised Account of the Family
Deeds are done on earth Which have their punishment ere the earth closes Upon the perpetrators. Be it the working Of the remorse-stained fancy, or the vision, Distinct and real, of unearthly being, All ages witness that beside the couch Of the fell homicide oft stalks the ghost Of him he slew, and shows his shadowy wound.
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