On this date in 1772, Mary Hilton was burned at the stake in Lancaster for “petty treason”: poisoning with arsenic her husband, John, a blacksmith.
She was drawn on a sledge to the execution site, hanged to death as a mercy, and her body burnt to ashes.
On this day..
- 1844: John Gavin, the first European hanged in Western Australia
- 1196: William FitzOsbert, medieval rebel
- 1489: Hans Waldmann, mayor of Zurich
- 1724: Sister Geltruda and Fra Romualdo, at a Palermo auto de fe
- 1985: Major Zin Mo, failed assassin
- 1571: James Hamilton, Archbishop of St. Andrews and uncle of a crack shot
- 1752: Mary Blandy, "forgiveness powder"
- 1857: Francis Richeux, witnessed by Tolstoy
- 1945: Kim Malthe-Bruun, Yours, but not forever
- 1199: Pierre Basile, marksman
- 1758: William Page, forgotten highwayman
- 1888: Jochin Henry Timmerman, "don't let them take you alive"