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Hanging Women
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Author : John Mead
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-03
Hanging Women written by John Mead and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03 with categories.
The Hanging Woman
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Author : J.R. Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
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The Hanging Woman written by J.R. Roberts and has been published by Speaking Volumes this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
A lynch mob ranks just below a rattlesnake in the Gunsmith's eyes. And a lynch mob that would hang a woman doesn't deserve the dirt it would take to bury it. That's just the kind of low-down cowardice Clint Adams finds when he rides into Horizon, Kansas. This bunch of so-called men left an innocent woman for dead—and now they've got to answer to the Gunsmith. Some would say the odds are against the Gunsmith, taking on seven men. But it only takes one legend to get the job done...
The Hanging Women
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Author : John Mead
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
The Hanging Women written by John Mead and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Ex-police officers categories.
Jack Stevens discovers the bodies of two women, Philomena Blackstaff and Mary Walsh, tied together and hung by their ankles in a position resembling the symbol for treachery as depicted on tarot cards. Though retired and now wealthy, Stevens is an ex-sheriff and involves himself in the subsequent investigation. As a result of Jack 'stealing' Philomena's diary and his association with the Pinkerton detective agency, it is discovered that Mary Walsh worked undercover for the Pinkertons, investigating the Knights of Labour (the fastest growing workers' rights movements in America of the late 1800's). The women had been working together, tracing the man who was selling guns and dynamite to the more extremest factions of the workers movement. This led them to Ruby's, a secret 'nightclub for deviants', where Stevens and Inspector O'Leary believe the pair fell foul of the man they were looking for, gang leader Joseph Mannheim. With the May 4th Haymarket riots and bombings looming, Stevens must uncover the truth about The Hanging Women before it's too late. Author John Mead was born in Dagenham and now lives in Hornchurch, Essex. John has a BSc (Hons), MBA and a PGCE - he now works in education.
The Hanging Of Mary Ann
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Author : Angela Badger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Hanging Of Mary Ann written by Angela Badger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Australian fiction categories.
A gripping story of power, deceit and passion, this historical reconstruction is based on events from 1855 in colonial Australia concerning Mary Ann Guise whose case is said to have brought about the Married Women's Property Act. She was the last woman to be hanged in New South Wales. When Mary Ann inherited her family's property, her husband soon began selling off portions of the land without her consent. Not only did he cheat her of her birthright, he then wanted to bring his 'fancy' woman to live there. Driven by desperation, Mary Ann fought with him and cut him with a knife. The wound turned septic and he died. Mary Ann was hauled off to Goulburn Gaol and branded a murderer. However, when she was found to be pregnant the authorities decided to wait until the baby was born before sentencing her to hang. Her real crime through all this was being born a woman in a man's world...This is 'faction' - reconstructed real historical events mixed with imagined dialogue.
Last Woman Hanged
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Author : Caroline Overington
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2014-11-01
Last Woman Hanged written by Caroline Overington and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-01 with History categories.
Two husbands, four trials and one bloody execution: Winner of the 2015 Davitt Award for Best Crime Book (Non-fiction) -- the terrible true story of Louisa Collins. In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a 41-year-old mother of ten children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the last woman hanged in New South Wales. Both of Louisa's husbands had died suddenly and the Crown, convinced that Louisa poisoned them with arsenic, put her on trial an extraordinary four times in order to get a conviction, to the horror of many in the legal community. Louisa protested her innocence until the end. Much of the evidence against Louisa was circumstantial. Some of the most important testimony was given by her only daughter, May, who was just 10-years-old when asked to take the stand. Louisa Collins was hanged at a time when women were in no sense equal under the law -- except when it came to the gallows. They could not vote or stand for parliament -- or sit on juries. Against this background, a small group of women rose up to try to save Louisa's life, arguing that a legal system comprised only of men -- male judges, all-male jury, male prosecutor, governor and Premier -- could not with any integrity hang a woman. The tenacity of these women would not save Louisa but it would ultimately carry women from their homes all the way to Parliament House. Caroline Overington is the author of eleven books of fiction and non-fiction, including the top-selling THE ONE WHO GOT AWAY psychological crime novel. She has said: 'My hope is that LAST WOMAN HANGED will be read not only as a true crime story but as a letter of profound thanks to that generation of women who fought so hard for the rights we still enjoy today.' Praise for LAST WOMAN HANGED 'The story she tells ... is a useful challenge to any tendency to simple moral indignation' -- Beverley Kingston, Sydney Morning Herald 'This is a fascinating book, a terrific read, and an excellent reminder of who tells the stories, and whose stories are forgotten' -- Frances Rand, South Coast Register '... what's ... interesting is Caroline Overington's even-handed appraisal of Collins's alleged crime(s) that led her to become the last woman hanged in New South Wales in 1889' -- Launceston Sunday Examiner
Women And The Gallows 1797 1837
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Author : Naomi Clifford
language : en
Publisher: Pen & Sword History
Release Date : 2018-01-23
Women And The Gallows 1797 1837 written by Naomi Clifford and has been published by Pen & Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-23 with Capital punishment categories.
"131 women were hanged in England and Wales between 1797 and 1837, executed for crimes including murder, baby-killing, theft, arson, sheep-stealing and passing forged bank notes. Most of them were extremely poor and living in desperate situations. Some were mentally ill. A few were innocent. And almost all are now forgotten, their voices unheard for generations. Mary Morgan – a teenager hanged as an example to others. Eliza Fenning – accused of adding arsenic to the dumplings. Mary Bateman – a ‘witch’ who duped her neighbours out of their savings. Harriet Skelton – hanged for passing counterfeit pound notes in spite of efforts by Elizabeth Fry and the Duke of Gloucester to save her. Naomi Clifford has unearthed the events that brought these ‘unfortunates’ to the gallows and has used contemporary newspaper accounts and documents to tell their stories"--
The Hanging Tree
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Author : V. A. C. Gatrell
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1994
The Hanging Tree written by V. A. C. Gatrell and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
A history of mentalities, emotions, and attitudes rather than of policies and ideas, it analyses responses to the scaffold at all social levels: among the crowds which gathered to watch executions; among 'polite' commentators from Boswell and Byron on to Fry, Thackeray, and Dickens; and among the judges, home secretary, and monarch who decided who should hang and who should be reprieved. Drawing on letters, diaries, ballads, broadsides, and images, as well as on poignant appeals for mercy which historians until now have barely explored, the book surveys changing attitudes to death and suffering, 'sensibility' and 'sympathy', and demonstrates that the long retreat from public hanging owed less to the growth of a humane sensibility than to the development of new methods of punishment and law enforcement, and to polite classes' deepening squeamishness and fear of the scaffold crowd.
Hanging The Peachtree Bandit
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Author : Tom Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2019-06-24
Hanging The Peachtree Bandit written by Tom Hughes and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-24 with True Crime categories.
The crime that led to “the first significant challenge to capital punishment in Georgia” and inspired the Grateful Dead song “Dupree’s Diamond Blues” (Atlanta INtown). On December 15, 1921, gunshots echoed across Atlanta’s famous Peachtree Street moments before a handsome young man darted away from Kaiser’s Jewelers. Frank DuPre left in his wake a dead Pinkerton guard and a missing ring. As Christmas shoppers looked on in panic, he raced through the Kimball House Hotel and shot another victim. The brazen events terrified a crime-filled city already on edge. A manhunt captured the nineteen-year-old, unemployed DuPre, who faced a quick conviction and a hanging sentence. Months of appeals pitted a prosecutor demanding some “good old-fashioned rope” against “maudlin sentimentalists” and “sob sisters.” Author Tom Hughes recounts the true harrowing story behind the legend of one of the last men hanged in Atlanta. “Revisits the crime, the trial, and the execution that captured newspaper headlines for months.”—WABE.org
The Last Woman To Be Hanged
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Author : Robert Hancock
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-11-26
The Last Woman To Be Hanged written by Robert Hancock and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-26 with True Crime categories.
On the eve of her hanging, Ruth Ellis wrote to a friend: 'I must close now but remember I am quite happy with the verdict, but not the way the story was told, there is so much that people don't know.' Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in Britain. This is her story. In July 1955 Ruth Ellis was sentenced to death for the shooting of her lover, motor-racing driver David Blakely. Barely three months later she was executed at Holloway prison. In this book, Robert Hancock sets the record straight. Using official documents including the transcript of her trial at the Old Bailey, he unlocks the full, secret background to the story of the last woman to be hanged in Britain. Meticulous and fair in its analysis, The Last Woman to be Hanged is an absorbing portrait of the tragic life of a young woman, a vivid snapshot of an era and a gripping account of a notorious case that shocked the nation.
Women And The Noose
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Author : Richard Clark (Writer on capital punishment)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Women And The Noose written by Richard Clark (Writer on capital punishment) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Female offenders categories.
From the Publisher: Tracing the history of female crime and execution from 1726 to 1955, Women and the Noose presents the cases of more than 50 women who met their end on the hangman's gallows. From the criminal act to the execution day itself, these women's stories illustrate the range of crimes punishable by execution, such as petty theft and murder, as well as reactions to the death sentence, including the "pleading the belly" defense. Richard Clark also discusses the developments in execution methods, from burning at the stake to the short- and long-drop, as well as the move from very public hangings to more dignified private events. Clark's frank treatment of the executions combined with sympathetic revelations about the women's private lives makes for a chilling and surprisingly moving read.