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1791: Thomas Mount of the Flash Company

Add comment May 27th, 2017 Headsman

On this date in 1791, two Rhode Island thiefs named Thomas Mount and James Williams were publicly hanged in Little Rest (present-day Kingston).

A lifelong thief who plundered up and down the Atlantic coast and had the floggings to show for it, Thomas Mount told all about it — and not only his picaresque career but also, once he was knocked down upon the crap and ready to be topped on his way to the crimson ken, I say also the organization and underworld cant of his gang, the Flash Company.

Swells and fine blowens, kick off your crabs and leg-bags, grab a suck, and viddy (okay, that one’s from A Clockwork Orange) … but not here. Friend of the site Anthony Vaver (author of Bound with an Iron Chain and Early American Criminals) has Thomas mounted in a fascinating three-part series on his site, Early American Crime:

• Thomas Mount and the Flash Company
• Thomas Mount’s Crime Tips
• Thomas Mount’s Flash Songs

Alternatively, peruse the source material, here:

On this day..

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• 1919: Frank Willis, but not by Bill Fisk - 2019
• 1661: Archibald Campbell - 2018
• 2013: Orelesitse Thokamolelo, bad in-law - 2016
• 1925: The Sveta Nedelya bombers - 2015
• 1994: Charles Rodman Campbell, hanged in Washington - 2014
• 1541: Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury - 2013
• 1776: Benjamin Harley and Thomas Henman, Smugglerius? - 2012
• 1941: Mirjam Sara P., T4 victim - 2011
• 1797: Gracchus Babeuf, for the Conspiracy of Equals - 2010
• 1525: Thomas Müntzer, prophet of the Peasants' War - 2009
• 1610: Francois Ravaillac, because Paris was worth more than a mass - 2008

Entry Filed under: 18th Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Hanged,History,Public Executions,Rhode Island,Theft,USA

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