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Ballad entitled 'Execution of Murphy', 1910 [image 1 of 4]
This ballad relates the story of William Murphy who was the last man to be executed at Caernarfon Gaol on 15 February 1910. Murphy was executed for the brutal murder of Gwen Ellen Jones at Holyhead on Christmas Day 1909. He was sentenced to death at the Beaumaris Assizes on 25 January 1910.
Item reference: : GTJ15844
