The following game - in Hans Renette's Louis Paulson A Chess Biography with 719 Games (2019) - features a variation of the Scotch Gambit which should look familiar to Jerome Gambit players.
Fischer played blindfold. Black was played by Louis Paulsen's brother Wilfried.
Fischer, E. - Paulsen, W.
blindfold exhibition, Detmold, 1855
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Bc4 Bc5 5.Ng5 Nh6 6.Nxf7 Nxf7 7.Bxf7+ Kxf7
The Sarratt or Vitzthum Attack, a possible fore-runner to the Jerome Gambit. See "A Bridge To... Somewhere?", "Another Distant Relative?", "The Sarratt Attack", "Another look at the Sarratt Attack" and "Sarrat Attack: No Way A World Champion...".
8.Qh5+ g6 9.Qxc5
The "nudge" 9.Qd5+ followed by the capture of the Bishop (e.g. Steinkhuler - Blackburne, Manchester, 1861) is probably not as good here.
9...d6 10.Qb5 Re8 11.Qd3 d5
12.f3
White needed to castle here, even though that would allow 12...dxe5, with advantage to Black.
12...dxe4 13.fxe4 Qh4+
14.g3 Rxe4+ 15.Kf2 Qe7
He could have played 15...Qf6+ 16.Bf4 Re3 with clear advantage.
Possibly both players overlooked the fact that the text could be met by 16.Bg5, winning the exchange, although Black would still be better.
16.Nd2 Re3 17.Qf1
Capturing the Bishop would lead to checkmate - but so does the text.
18...Kg7 19.Nf3 Rxf3+ 20.Kxf3 Rf8+ 21.Bf4 Qe3 checkmate
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