The Essex hue and cry being a true, particular, and exact account of that barbarous, bloody, cruel, and inhuman murder ...[not before 8 September 1782]engCaption title.Title continues: which was committed on Sunday last, in White Post Lane, near East Ham, in the county of Essex, upon Richard Moss, a youth only 14 years of age, who was robbed and murdered by a footpad.In one column with title and woodcut above; no rules or onamental type present.Date of publication conjectured based on date of the crime 8 September 1782. The murderer was executed on 10 March 1783.First line: Sunday last the following bloody murder was committed upon the body of an unhappy youth, without the least provocation ...