Corpses Strewn: All in the Family
August 6th, 2014 Headsman
Thieving in Bloody Code England was quite often a family affair. For a few scattered posts this August we will revisit an extended clan of vagabond Northumberland robbers (and sometimes worse than robbers) who in the 1780s and 1790s broke with one another the bread they plundered from their neighbors. Terrifying in their moment, the family — and the family business — was extirpated in successive executions.
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August 6, 1788: John and Robert Winter
August 10, 1792: William Winter, of Winter’s Gibbet
August 14, 1793: Walter Clark, hanged women’s father
On this day..
- 1915: A day in the death penalty (and lynch law) around the U.S. - 2020
- 1819: Nathan Foster, wife-killer and patriot-killer - 2019
- 1718: Purry Moll and Elizabeth Cave - 2018
- 1859: Ratu Mara Kapaiwai, Fiji warrior - 2017
- 2013: Nguyen Anh Tuan, Vietnam's first lethal injection - 2016
- 1883: James Burton, William Marwood's last - 2015
- 1788: John and Robert Winter, father and son - 2014
- 1936: Josep Sunyol, FC Barcelona President - 2013
- 1759: Eugene Aram, philologist - 2012
- 1942: Janusz Korczak and his orphans - 2011
- 1795: Pomp, a Negro - 2010
- 1628: Johannes Junius "will never see you more" - 2009
- 1890: William Kemmler, only in America - 2008
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