The first forensic hanging
Strevens, Summer2018
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'For the sake of decency, gentlemen, don't hang me high'. This was the last request of modest murderess Mary Blandy, who was hanged for poisoning her father in 1752. Concerned that the young men in the crowd who had thronged to see her execution might look up her skirts as she was turned off' by the hangman, this last nod to propriety might appear farcical in one who was about to meet her maker. Yet this was just another aspect of a case which attracted so much public attention in its day that some determined spectators even went to the lengths of climbing through the courtroom windows to get a glimpse of Mary while on trial. Indeed her case remained newsworthy for the best part of 1752, for months garnering endless scrutiny and mixed reaction in the popular press.
Main title:
The first forensic hanging / Summer Strevens.
Author:
Imprint:
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword History, 2018.
Collation:
144 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781526736185 (pbk)1526736187 (pbk)
Dewey class:
363.2509 STR363.2509
LC class:
HV8073
Language:
English
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BRN:
391066