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Contributor Hinckley, Cornelius T., b. ca. 1820, engraver.
Title Accurate view of the room in which the murders were committed.
Alternate title An Accurate view of the room in which the murders were committed, as it appeared on the morning of the discovery of the crime [including portraits of Mrs. Ellen Lynch and Mrs. Honora Shaw] / Hinckley.
Publisher [Philadelphia? : s.n.]
Date [1853?]
Physical description 1 print : engraving ; 11.4 x 16.4 cm.
Description Full-length portraits of the victims in the parlor. The illustration depicts the scene of the crime the morning after the murders. Mrs. Honora Shaw, closest to the door, lies on her back with her arms flailed upward. Mrs. Ellen Lynch lies across the room, barefoot and on her side.
Notes In The Life and adventures of Arthur Spring; the murderer of Mrs. Ellen Lynch and Mrs. Honora Shaw (Philadelphia, 1853), p. 53.
Mrs. Ellen Lynch and Mrs. Honora Shaw were murdered by Mr. Arthur Spring, whom they had grown up with in Ireland, on the night of March 10th, 1853. Mr. Spring murdered the sisters in the home that they shared in an attempt to rob them of less than one hundred dollars.
Genre Portrait prints -- 1850-1859.
Engravings -- 1850-1859.
Subject Lynch, Ellen, 1822-1853 -- Portraits.
Shaw, Honora, 1806 or 7-1853 -- Portraits.
Crime scenes.
Women.
Irish American women.