Some Distinguished Victims of the ScaffoldBleackley, Horace
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Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold
Bleackley, Horace
Criminals -- Great Britain; Executions and executioners; Trials -- Great Britain
The veteran Sunday journal--which at this period was the
property of Wm. Clement, who owned also the _Morning
Chronicle_, and afterwards _Bell’s Life_--takes the bulk of its
reports, like most of the weekly papers, from the columns of
the daily press.
10. _The Sunday Times._
This hardy newspaper (which age cannot wither) condemns the
criminal code that makes forgery a capital offence, and charges
Messrs Marsh, Stracey and Graham with previous knowledge of
their partner’s guilt. On October 10 appeared the famous letter
from malignant ex-Sheriff Parkins, complaining that Fauntleroy
or his partners had surrendered certain private documents which
he had left at their bank in safe custody. In those days the
_Sunday Times_ was under the proprietorship of its founder,
Daniel Harvey.
11. _The Englishman._
A weekly paper, containing reports similar to those in the
_Observer_.
12. _Bell’s Weekly Messenger._
The leading article of December 5 expresses the hope that Mr
Fauntleroy will be the last person executed for forgery. As
a matter of fact the Berners Street frauds postponed this
much-desired reform, and the illogical argument of George III.
was revived in another shape--“If Dr. Dodd is pardoned, then
the Perreaus have been murdered.” Captain John Montgomery would
have been hanged on July 4, 1828, for forging bank notes, had
he not cheated the gallows by the aid of prussic acid; Joseph
Hunton, the Quaker, suffered death at Newgate on December 8
following, for issuing counterfeit bills of exchange; and
Thomas Maynard, who had obtained money from the Custom House
under a fraudulent warrant, was executed in the same place on
the last day of the year 1829. After this date, although the
capital penalty was not finally abolished until 1837, no other
person was hanged for forgery in this country.
13. _Bell’s Weekly Dispatch._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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