Pat O'Brien ship's carpenter, ship's carpenter by trade

Pat O'Brien seduces a girl but decides to murder her rather than marry her. Asks her to meet him and then stabs her. The girl's ghost appears to her mother and tells her where her body is to be found and who her murdered is.Laws, ABBB, 271 (P39); Mercer: ("The Cruel Ship's Carpenter"); Karpeles, 1971:115 ("The Gosport Tragedy"); Leach, 1965: 74, 76 ("Pretty Polly", "The Gosport Tragedy"); Peacock, 1965: 404 ("The Ship's Carpenter"; "The Perjured Ship's Carpenter")