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Daily Double: Century-Old English Legal Novelties

January 29th, 2013 Headsman

Hangings on consecutive dates in 1913 — neither a show-stopper on its own, but each with a curious legal twist — mark our next two dates.

• Jan. 29, 1913: Edward Hopwood, clumsy suicide
• Jan. 30, 1913: John Williams, the Case of the Hooded Man

On this day..

• 1733: Henry Neal, for shoes and breeches - 2020
• 1726: Thomas Craven and William Anderson, reluctant autobiographers - 2019
• 1696: Thomas Randal, obstinate - 2018
• 2015: Robert Ladd, "let's ride" - 2017
• 1802: Joseph Wall - 2016
• 1745: Eve, her smoke visible throughout the country - 2015
• 1879: John Achey and William Merrick, the first hanged in Indianapolis - 2015
• 1253: P. Morret, poor guesser - 2014
• 1913: Edward Hopwood, clumsy suicide - 2013
• 1912: Albert Wolter, white slaver - 2012
• 1869: Chauncey W. Millard, candy man - 2011
• 1810: Pedro Domingo Murillo, for Bolivian independence - 2010
• 2006: A female spy by al Qaeda - 2009
• 1547: Not Thomas Howard, because Henry VIII died first - 2008
• Themed Set: The English Reformation - 2008

Entry Filed under: Daily Doubles,Themed Sets