“I did it and I will swing for it.”
–Said by Samson/Sampson Silas Salmon to the police who found him at the scene with the body of his landlady, her throat slashed nearly to the point of decapitation. Salmon had lost his job, fallen to drinking, and eventually been evicted.
On this day..
- 1803: Mathias Weber, Rhineland robber
- 1951: Jean Lee, the last woman to hang in Australia
- 1329: The effigy of Pope John XXII, by Antipope Nicholas V
- 2009: Abdullah Fareivar, by the rope instead of the stone
- 1861: The Bascom Affair hangings, Apache War triggers
- 1878: J.W. Rover, sulfurous
- 1762: Francois Rochette and the Grenier brothes, the last Huguenot martyrs in France
- 1836: Giuseppe Fieschi, Pierre Morey, and Theodore Pepin, infernal machinists
- 1790: Thomas de Mahy, Marquis de Favras
- 1388: Robert Tresilian, former Chief Justice
- Daily Double: The Merciless Parliament
- 1858: Chief Leschi
- 1942: Frank Abbandando and Harry Maione, mob hitmen