Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-09-08
How Criminals Were Treated a Century
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From Dudsly's Annual Register.

1773-Sept. 18th, London. This morn
ing Elizabeth Herring, who was
convicted last Friday, at the old Bailey,
of the wilful murder of her husband
(who piled as waterman at Mapping
Stairs) by stabbing him with case
knife in the throat, in a quarrel while
they were at dinner at a public house in
King ST., Mapping. She was carried in
sledge drawn by four horses from
Newgate to Tyburn. She confessed that
her husband died by the wounds she
gave him in her passion, to which she
was very subject, but declared that she
had no intention of numbering him, and
seemed to be entirely resigned to her
unhappy fate. The method of execut-
ing this unfortunate woman was as fol-
lows She was placed on stool
something more than two feet high,
and chain being placed under her
arms, the rope around her neck was
made fast to two spikes, which being
driven through post, against which
she stood, when her devotions were
ended, the stool was taken from under
her, and she was soon strangled. When
she had hung about fifteen minutes the
rope was burnt and she sunk till the
chain supported her, forcing her hands
up to a level with her face, and the
flames being furious, she soon was con-
sumed. The crowd was so immensely
great that it was long time before the
fagots could be placed for execution.
1774-October 4tl. This d ay SER
geant of the third reg ment OF guards,
who on Wednesday last was tried by a
court martial for enlisting men for the
governments service and afterward en-
ticing them to enter that of the French,
and sentenced to be shot, was reprieved
and ordered to receive 900 lashes on the
parade, punishment thought by many
to be more terrible than death itself.
April o. This day, Thomas Ives, for
coming and counterfeiting the current
silver coin, was drawn on sledge to
Tyburn, and, after hanging some time,
his body was opened and his bowels and
heart taken out and burnt.
December 21st. Letters from Paris
mention the execution of a young man
and his accomplice, last week, for the
murder of his father. a stable-keeper of
that city, with knife, with which he
gave him two mortal wounds In the
body. His mother gave him ten guineas
to effect his escape but the murderers:
however, were both caught, tried and
sentenced to the wheel, &c. In the
morning of their execution the son was
carried to Notre Dame, where, with a
lighted torch in his hand, he made pub
lie confession of his crime to God, his
king and justice, after which he had his
right hand severed at the wrist from his
BODY; he was next conducted to the
foot of a scaffold, where he beheld his
accomplice on the wheel. Having as
cended it, he was likewise put on the
rack, with his face upward, in which
excruciating torture he continued near
six hours, uttering the most horrid i'm
precautions, before he expired.
l775-October 10th. Joannes Baptista
Pale, a native of Genoa, was executed at
Lisbon for having plotted against the
life of the Marquis of Pombal. He was
drawn in quarters by four horses, after
having his hands dragged off, and after
ward burnt to ashes. 1t is reported that
though he suffered the ordinary and
extraordinary torture from the begin
ming of his tortures to his dying
moment. not so much as a sigh escaped
from him.
November 18th. Nine old women
were burned at Kalisk, in Poland
charged with having bewitched and rem
dered unfruitful the lands belonging tC
a gentleman in that Palatlnate.