Re: Public executions

[Dennis Ahern]

In soc.genealogy.ireland Ian Goddard <godd...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
: Nick Russell wrote:
:> "Dennis Ahern" <ah...@world.std.com> wrote in message
:> news:j0hc8g$kuq$1...@pcls6.std.com...
:>> Michael Danahy <mlda...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
:>> : So they were hung in public and people went to see it?
:>
:> 20,000 people went to see the execution of one of my partner's relations,
:> Mary Ball (nee Wright) in Coventry on 9th August 1849, for giving her (swine
:> of a) husband arsenic. I am not sure whether she was the last woman or the
:> last person to be hung in public - hence, perhaps, the large crowd. She was
:> buried upright - was this usual for such persons?

: The usual outcome was dissection for medical instruction.

See http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~aherns/ahnws184.htm#12/08/1846
for a phrenological analysis of one John A'Hearn who had been hung at
Sydney, New South Wales on 12 August 1845 for the murder of his niece.

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