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1802: John Beatson and William Whalley, mail robbers

Posted on 17 April, 2019 by Headsman

From the Hampshire/Portsmouth Telegraph (Leeds, England), Monday, April 26, 1802:

On this day..

  • 1918: Bolo Pasha
  • 1922: Cemal Azmi, the butcher of Trabzon
  • 1792: Three cadavers, to test the first guillotine
  • 316 BCE: Olympias, mother of Alexander the Great
  • 1635: Elizabeth Evans, "Canonbury Besse"
  • 1954: Lucretiu Patrascanu, purged Romanian
  • 1680: John Marketman, jealous chirurgeon
  • 1689: William Bew, flatterer
  • 1457: The Wallachian boyars
  • 1222: An apostate deacon
  • 1355: Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice
  • 1975: Long Boret, on Day One

Possibly related executions:

  • 1809: Mary Bateman, the Yorkshire Witch
  • 1812: Daniel Dawson, for the integrity of sport
  • 1817: Two-fifths of the condemned in Valenciennes
  • 1864: Franz Muller, “Ich habe es getan”
  • 1819: John Booth and Thomas Wildish, minor crooks
  • 1811: Five at Shrewsbury, “but a ten minutes job”
  • 1864: Utuwankande Sura Saradiel, Ceylon social bandit
This entry was posted in 19th Century, Capital Punishment, Common Criminals, Crime, Death Penalty, England, Execution, Hanged, Public Executions, Theft and tagged 1800s, 1802, april 17, john beatson, william whalley by Headsman. Bookmark the permalink.
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