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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: Jove Publications
Release Date : 1996
The Hanging Woman written by J. R. Roberts and has been published by Jove Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Fiction categories.
Gunsmith Clint Adams takes on seven vicious members of a lynch mob who had hanged an innocent woman and left her for dead. Original.
The Hanging Woman
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Author : John Rhode
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1933
The Hanging Woman written by John Rhode and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with categories.
The Hanging Women
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Author : John Mead
language : en
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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.
Women And The Noose
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Author : Richard Clark
language : en
Publisher: History Press
Release Date : 2023-02
Women And The Noose written by Richard Clark and has been published by History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02 with categories.
A fascinating insight into the crimes of women, and how their executions took place From Sarah Malcolm, sentenced to be executed for multiple murders in the early eighteenth century, to Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain in 1955, Women and the Noose traces the history of female crime through the cases of seventy women who met their end on the hangman's gallows. In this detailed account, each woman's story is revealed: her background, criminal acts and execution. Through their tales, historian Richard Clark highlights the wide range of crimes once punishable by death, from cold-blooded murder and crimes of passion to burglary and petty theft. He also shows how, as time went on, execution methods evolved, from burning at the stake to death by hanging, and how the public came to prefer a more humane, private death over the cruel, public scenes of earlier periods. Clark's frank treatment of events, combined with sympathetic revelations about the women's private lives, makes this revised and updated edition of Women and the Noose a chilling and surprisingly moving read.
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 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.
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.
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"--
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.