Anthony Vaver’s captivating Early American Crime blog neatly summarizes this story. But for readers with a taste for an original colonial hanging-pamphlet, read on …
On this day..
- 1879: Anders Larsson, the first private execution in Sweden
- 1844: John Knatchbull, moral madman
- 1995: Franklin Thomas, David Thomas, and Douglas Hamlet, the last in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- 1818: Samuel Godfrey, American picaro
- 1945: 59 collaborationists in Bulgaria
- 1864: Bizoton Affair executions
- 1859: Father Paul Loc, Vietnamese martyr
- 2009: Minurul Islam and two friends, for a dowry death
- 1892: Two Georgian bandits, witnessed by Stalin
- 1906: William Williams, the last hanged in Minnesota
- 1542: Kathryn Howard, the rose without a thorn
- 1942: Patrick Stanley Vaughan Heenan, Japanese spy