1775: Huttenkloas
Add comment September 13th, 2019 Headsman
The notorious Dutch criminal Huttenkloas was broken on the wheel on this date in 1775.
The distinctive brand Huttenkloas today attaches to a brewery with a sigil depicting the “chair of Huttenkloas” into which the robber was chained and tortured for several months. This torture device — the chair, not the beer — can be seen at the Palthehuis Museum in Oldenzaal.
Klaas Annink by name (English Wikipedia entry | Dutch), this 65-year-old was implicated in a number of robbers and murders in the vicinity of Hof van Twente, nearby the village where he lived in his creepy shack. His son Jannes and his wife Aarne Spanjers were also condemned for these same crimes, and both also put to death.
We’re a bit short on archival footage of Huttenkloas, but this 2019 re-enactment might do instead.
On this day..
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- 1569: Gaspard de Coligny, in effigy - 2017
- 1862: William Robert Taylor, angry tenant - 2016
- 1567: Four Anabaptists in Antwerp, after torture - 2015
- 1418: Beatrice di Tenda - 2014
- 1896: Chief Uwini of the Maholi - 2013
- 1944: Noor Inayat Khan, SOE operative - 2012
- 1916: Mary the Elephant - 2011
- 1962: Mack Merrill Rivenburgh cheats the executioner - 2010
- 1847: The San Patricios - 2009
- 1946: Amon Göth, Schindler's List villain - 2008
Entry Filed under: 18th Century,Broken on the Wheel,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Gruesome Methods,Netherlands,Public Executions,Serial Killers,Torture
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