Superintendent Durkin and Inspector Mackenzie enter the rooms of Mr Roberts in London and find him severely wounded after an encounter with Major Murray. Coloured lithograph, 1861.

[London] (12 Regent-street, Pall Mall) : W.H.J. Carter, bookseller, printseller, &c., [1861]

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 24.5 x 42.2 cm

Scene of the frightful encounter between Mr. Roberts and Major Murray, at 16, Northumberland Street, Strand, July 12, 1861. This sketch represents the state of the rooms immediately after the affray, and the position of Mr. Roberts on entry of the police. The rooms communicate with each other by folding-doors, and are furnished in the most luxuriant and costly style; but the whole of the rich furniture and ornaments are covered with a thick layer of dust, of years standing. Pools of blood, with the broken tongs, wine-bottles and pistols, and the furniture generally lie about in hideous confusion. ... Lettering continues: ... Major Murray denies all knowledge of Mr. Roberts before this mysterious and dreadful tragedy, and calls him Grey. Roberts, who has since died in hospital, stated that Murray was the aggressor. There is reason to suppose that a Mrs. Anna Maria Murray, of Elm Lodge, Tottenham, where Major Murray resided, is in some way mixed up in the parties in this horrible transaction.

The times, 13 July 1861, p. 12

Wellcome Collection 42739i