The murderer's straight route to heaven - bringing religion into disrepute LCCN2012647219, 1882

Title: the murderer's straight route to heaven - bringing religion into disrepute abstract: print shows the spirit of an executed murderer rising to heaven as a minister wipes clean the "blackboard of crime" on which are "murder, arson, [and] robb[ery]" with the "sponge of absolution" as "years of sin [are] wiped out in tem minutes", while "the wife of the victim experiences hell on earth" at a cemetery in the upper left, and "the 'unprepared' victim" descends to the flames of "purgatory" accompanied by devils. Physical description: 1 print: chromolithograph. Notes: copyright 1882 by keppler & schwarzmann.;j. Keppler.;illus. From puck, v. 11, no. 277, (1882 june 28), centerfold.;title from item. Date: 1882.