Penny Dreadfuls, 1866 · page 69 of 276
Ivan the Terrible; or, Dark Deeds of Night — page 69: what you’re looking at
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# Description This is a page of running prose from Chapter XXXV of the penny dreadful *Ivan the Terrible; or, Dark Deeds of Night*. The page includes a dramatic wood-engraved illustration depicting a nighttime scene with figures near a fortified building overlooking a cityscape. The text continues a dialogue in which Will Winter is arrested and charged with murder and robbery of his master. Ivan and a witness named Andy provide testimony to a chief officer, with Andy describing discovering the crime scene with open doors and hearing fleeing footsteps of persons carrying bag-like objects. The narrative is interrupted mid-sentence as Andy begins recounting what he discovered in the counting-house.
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