Comments on: 1879: Charles Peace, Victorian cat burglar

By: ExecutedToday.com » 1840: Francois Benjamin Courvoisier, for the murder of Lord Russell

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:18:08 +0000

[...] valorizing highwaymen helped to feed an enduring popular craze for hanging broadsides and “penny dreadfuls” and to mainstream a (commercialized) version of thieves’ cant. See The Hanging Tree: [...]

By: ExecutedToday.com » 1741: Jenny Diver, a Bobby Darin lyric?

ExecutedToday.com » 1741: Jenny Diver, a Bobby Darin lyric? — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:18:33 +0000

[...] live on in cheap publications hawked by itinerant peddlers — 18th century precursors of the penny dreadful — that in Jenny’s case helpfully doled out tips on foiling [...]

By: ExecutedToday.com » 1887: Roxalana Druse, the last woman hanged in New York

ExecutedToday.com » 1887: Roxalana Druse, the last woman hanged in New York — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:09:35 +0000

[...] paper here mining the product-moving public fascination with mayhem we have noted across the pond), “she has dwindled to a mere shadow of her former self and would hardly tip the scales at 85 [...]

By: Christine Armstrong

Christine Armstrong — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:16:39 +0000

Charley Peace was one of my ancestors- what a shock! That side of the family was ‘Holier than Thou’ No wonder they never spole about where thay came from.

By: William J E Bcon

William J E Bcon — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:56:50 +0000

I have lived all my life with the tale of my greate Grand Farther a London Cab owner driver, was murderd by three men wearing womens dress who asked him to drive them to Hamstead.
He was found dieing in a ditch on the heath ,the next morning.
His wife ,my Great Grand Mother held me in her arms befor she died aged 101, I was born 1936

By: William Bacon

William Bacon — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:42:22 +0000

I Believe this man murdered my Great Grand father