The Best (or Worst) of 'Orrible Murder - 2/2
By popular demand...the best of 'Orrible Murder. Pictures from The Illustrated Police News, 1870s.
Gory, gruesome and/or exceedingly melodramatic Victorian engravings ahead. Death & corpses (not always in one piece) abound. Do not proceed if you don't want to see them. (Warning: the following page contains [engraved] depictions of suicide and murder). Very, very macabre.
What a Way to Go
Decapitation...
Oops...
...razorblades...
...burning...
...or ending up as someone else's Sunday dinner.
Via self-operated guillotine - a surprisingly popular choice...
Restraints & a candle burning through the securing rope.
A weighted rope & a leaking bucket to give him time to chloroform himself before the blade was finally released.
...or the railway...
...or roasting your own bed...
...or, to end on a lighter note, completely unsuccessfully.
This woman survived her suicide attempt, thanks to her petticoats being trapped in the window at the critical moment.
And this man decided, halfway-through, that maybe self-crucifixion wasn't ideal.
Gory, gruesome and/or exceedingly melodramatic Victorian engravings ahead. Death & corpses (not always in one piece) abound. Do not proceed if you don't want to see them. (Warning: the following page contains [engraved] depictions of suicide and murder). Very, very macabre.
What a Way to Go
Decapitation...
Oops...
...razorblades...
...burning...
...or ending up as someone else's Sunday dinner.
Via self-operated guillotine - a surprisingly popular choice...
Restraints & a candle burning through the securing rope.
A weighted rope & a leaking bucket to give him time to chloroform himself before the blade was finally released.
...or the railway...
...or roasting your own bed...
...or, to end on a lighter note, completely unsuccessfully.
This woman survived her suicide attempt, thanks to her petticoats being trapped in the window at the critical moment.
And this man decided, halfway-through, that maybe self-crucifixion wasn't ideal.