[Criminal Broadside, Murder]

[Criminal Broadside, Murder] The Tewksbury [Tewkesbury] Tragedy, Giving an account how Susannah Shaw was Murdered, by a Naval Officer of the name of Mr [Samuel] Gray, who cruelly sedued [sic] her under the promise of Marriage, and stabbed her to the heart with a knife and buried her under a tree in the wood near Tewksbury, Birmingham, Wm. Wright. Printer, 99, Lichfield-Street, [circa 1810-1820], silked, woodcut of a man digging a grave with a pickaxe, a dead body lying beside the grave, 'Tragic Verses' below, 37.5cm x 24.5cm

We have not been able to establish an execution date of Mr Gray in our research. Shaw was allegedly the daughter of a respectable farmer near Tewkesbury, The 'Tragic Verses' appended to the broadside are a version of the 'The female rambling sailor'. ... the flattering tongue of a sea Captain, of the name of Mr. Samuel Gray,

"who filled her mind with the most solemn promises of marriage, which the foolish girl believed until they appointed a meeting place, which they frequented for a short space of time, when poor Susan would urge him to fulfil his promises he had made to her, which he proposed to fulfil after he had made a trip to North America ... when she found she was pregnant!... he was immediately apprehended and fully committed, to take his trial at next Gloucester Assizes."