Michael McGarvey [sic] beating his wife to death.
Women.
M’Garvey, Michael, Mrs. -- Portraits.
Crime scenes.
Uxoricides.
Murders -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
In Brooke, H.K. Tragedies on the land (Philadelphia, 1845), p. 149.
On November 21, 1828, after a disagreement at their home in Philadelphia, Michael M’Garvey whipped his wife. She died one or two days later.
Full-length portrait of a woman, kneeling with her hair tied to a bedpost; a man stands nearby with a whip raised above his head ready to strike her; another woman stares at them from behind an open door.
[Philadelphia? : s.n.]
[1845?]
Portrait prints -- 1840-1849.
Engravings -- 1840-1849.
1 print : engraving ; 7.6 x 11.5 cm
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