Pedro María Ñancúpel Alarcón, famiiarly nicknamed “the pirate Ñancúpel”, was shot on this date in 1888 for his long campaign of banditry in Chile’s Guaitecas Islands.
He had once been pulled in more legitimate fashion to these islands, and the adjacent Chiloe archipelago, both floating off the edge of southern Chile’s Patagonia region — as a part of the late 19th century pull of virginal resources in want of capitalization. Ñancúpel and his wife, as well as a brother of his, followed this call and for some years he worked as a cypress tree cutter, then a trader of the rich sea lion furs to be hunted there.
For unknown reasons he abandoned this frontier hustle to join the robber gang of yet another relative, José Domingo Nahuelhuén. They specialized in seaborne piracy, attacking ships by piercing their hulls and then boarding aggressively while the crew struggled to keep their ship from sinking — whereupon the boat could be looted for its freight and the crew slaughtered to eliminate witnesses. This was obviously a dangerous way to make a living, and the pirate Ñancúpel seems to have risen to leadership after his kinsman Nahuelhuen was captured and executed along with several mates.
Ñancúpel himself had been imprisoned on a few different occasions, always managing to wriggle out of the jam. His arrest in August 1886 whilst in his cups toasting his latest outrage would be the last one: although five other relatives taken with him all(!) managed to avoid punishment — three were minors released for that reason, and his brother and his nephew managed to escape — our man Pedro was sentenced at the island town of Castro, Chile for several of his piratical murders and shot in a prison courtyard there. Picturesquely, the execution was delayed for several hours because there was a woman in labor on a nearby street, and it was thought that conducting an execution in such circumstances would put the evil eye upon the newborn.
On this day..
- 1810: Metta Fock, embroiderer
- 1707: Bartellemy Pichon dit La Roze, the first executed in Fort Detroit
- 1873: Captain Joseph Fry and 36 crew of the Virginius
- 1941: Francisc Panet
- 1765: Alexander Provan, half-handed
- 1898: Sokong, Lavari, and Kruba of the Imperri
- 1918: Louis Harris and Ernest Jackson, the last British soldiers shot at dawn
- 1864: Retaliatory executions by John Mosby
- 1823: Rafael Riego, Spanish liberal
- 1817: The Pentrich Rebellion leaders
- 1550: Jon Arason, the last Catholic bishop of Iceland
- 1944: Hannah Szenes, who gambled on what mattered most
- 1944: Richard Sorge and Hotsumi Ozaki
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