An Eye for a Killing: 3. The Innocent and the Guilty
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The Death of Robert Knox
Trouble is brewing for Knox in a frightened city, where the names of the missing and known murdered are mingling with rumours. All fueled by articles in simple new sheets called Broad Sides. If you just wanted something on a single issue that was cheap, cheerful, then we could just be thrown away afterwards. You'd buy a broad side. And they were like the social media of the day. They were printed very quickly and sold either directly from the printer or from horkers in the streets. Most don't survive - but not before inflaming passions in a scared populace. The trial will continue right through until the morning of Christmas Day.
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