Newspaper report that appeared in the Beds and Independent July 1876 regarding the Royal Respite for Lucy Lowe.

By an act of royal clemency the woman convicted of the wilful murder of her infant is suffered to escape the gallows for the dreary experience of lifelong immurement, a worse penalty to a sensitive mind. The Governor, Mr. Roberts has received the following communication from the Home Secretary, marked as "pressing":-
"Whitehall, 19th July, 1876.
"Sir,-I am to signify to you the Queen's commands that the execution of the sentence of death passed upon Lucy Lowe, now in the Bedford Prison, be respited until further signification of Her Majesty's pleasure.
"I am, sir, your obedient servant,
" R. ASSHETON CROSS."