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May 1st, 2019
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The young maid Adriana Bouwman was guillotined on this date in 1813 for theft and arson; it was the second and last use of that notorious machine in The Hague, during the three years that the Netherlands was directly incorporated into Napoleon’s First Empire .
Arijaantje Apersdr Bouman was condemned for robbing and torching a farmhouse where she worked as a domestic. She was four months shy of her 20th birthday when beheaded.
On this day.. 2012: Michael Selsor - 20201928: Xiang Jingyu, Communist - 20181691: William Macqueen, the Irish Teague - 20171942: Robert "Rattlesnake" James, the last man hanged by California - 20162013: Steven T. Smith - 20151945: Charlotte Rebhun, Righteous Gentile - 20141897: John Gibson, under Jim Crow - 20131861: Anton Petrov, of Bezdna - 20121830: The slave Jerry, the last American execution by burning? - 20112009: Delara Darabi, "Oh mother, I can see the noose" - 20101820: The Cato Street Conspirators - 20091461: James Butler, War of the Roses casualty - 2008Entry Filed under: 19th Century ,Arson ,Beheaded ,Capital Punishment ,Common Criminals ,Crime ,Death Penalty ,Execution ,France ,Guillotine ,Netherlands ,Public Executions ,Theft ,Women
Tags: 1810s , 1813 , adriana bouwman , may 1 , the hague
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