User:SlimVirgin/WA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The trial of William Acton, warden of the Marshalsea prison in London, took place in August 1729. Acton was charged with murder after three prisoners died. The trial became a major public event. John Ginger writes that, when the Prince of Wales's bookseller presented his bill at the end of that year, two of the 41 volumes on it were accounts of Acton's trial.[1]