The New Newgate Calendar

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On this date in 1278, humiliatingly dressed like a buffoon, Pierre de La Brosse was strung up at Montfaucon without benefit of trial. De La Brosse (English... read more »

June 29, 1944, saw several noteworthy mass executions around Axis western Europe. France: Seven Jewish hostages for the assassination of Philippe Henriot... read more »

“A most infernal plot has lately been discovered here, which, had it been put into execution, would have made America tremble, and been as fatal... read more »

On this date in 1794, Simon-Nicholas Henry Linguet was guillotined during the French Revolution for having written praise of foreign tyrants. Linguet (English... read more »

A man … who was in the habit of asking his wife for money to buy brandy, would on her refusal say that he would go hang himself. When on 23 June... read more »

On this date in 2003, four women all condemned for drug offenses were among a group executed by shooting at Wuhan, in central China. This mass execution... read more »

'The Real Moll Flanders: 18th Century Criminal Trials and Punishment': Part 2, the case of Hester Norton.[1]Before the advent of a national police force,... read more »

(Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.) Close to midnight on this date in 1890, four convicted murderers — three... read more »

Sunday, 24 June 1928: The World's Pictorial News reports that Beatrice's defence fund has reached read more »

June 23, alas, was the end of the line for Jesuit Thomas Garnet, martyred on that date in 1608 for Catholic proselyizing in England. Now accounted a saint... read more »

On this date in 1934, “the most successful and painless [execution] ever conducted at the penitentiary” claimed the life of William Cody Kelley... read more »

On this date in 1475, four members of Trent, Italy’s small Jewish community were burned at the stake outside St. Martin’s Gate for the ritual... read more »

(Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.) On this date in 1944, Jakob Edelstein, his wife Miriam, their twelve-year-son... read more »

On this date in 1699, Madame Angelique-Nicole Tiquet lost her beautiful head … eventually. The talk of every Parisian in the spring of 1699 for attempting... read more »

Nothing new under the Sun (or clouds)Following an exchange of tweets with @Amateur_Casual and recurring headlines on the inclement weather we are currently... read more »

On this day in Kentucky in 1827, a plainly guilty murderer who was on to his third trial received an unconditional pardon. His name was Isaac Desha and... read more »

June 17 is an honored day in Vietnam for the sacrifice under the French guillotine this date of 13 early martyrs for national independence. These were... read more »

On this date in 1923, Daniel Cooper was hanged in Wellington, New Zealand for murder. Cooper and his second wife — his first died under suspicious... read more »

On this date in 1920, a white mob perhaps 10,000 strong swarmed into the Duluth, Minn. jail and extracted three young African-American circus workers accused... read more »

(Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.) On this day in 1897, Choka Ebin (Eben), a full-blooded Creek Indian, was executed... read more »

Ellen Thomson, the only woman ever executed in Queensland was hanged this date in 1887, along with her lover John Harrison — both condemned for murdering... read more »

This dispatch to the New York Herald was published on June 16, 1863. Mr. W. Young’s Letter. Near Beallton Station, Va., June 14, 1863. THE DESERTER... read more »

On this date in 1835, four Spanish pirates — it was supposed to be more — were put to death at Boston. Their captain, the Catalan Pedro Gilbert,... read more »

I’ve been too sick today to do any proper research, so thought I’d write about detectives who were forced to retire because of disease or infirmity.... read more »

'The Real Moll Flanders: 18th Century Criminal Trials and Punishment'. Part 1 the sourcesDaniel Defoe's Moll Flanders was published in 1722 and for the... read more »

(cc) image from fintbo. (Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.) On this date in 1944, four days after the Allied invasion... read more »

Sunday, 10 June 1928: The Sunday News reports that Beatrice's defence fund has reached read more »

On this date in 1809, Andreas Bichel lost his head. This killer’s strange m.o. was to entice young women with the promise of divining their fortune... read more »

The three card trick being practised on a 19th century train: Illustrated London News Today, at Appleby Fair, we saw some men practising the three card... read more »

Friday, 8 June 1928: The Dean Forest Guardian reports that Beatrice's defence fund has reached read more »

(Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.) On this date in 1866, mass murderer Anton Probst (sometimes called “Antoine”)... read more »

Thursday, 7 June 1928: A. A. Purcell, M.P. for the Forest of Dean, is reported in the Daily Herald as stating he was 'in touch with a first-class K.C.',... read more »

On this date in 1921, Great Britain hanged one of its own paramilitaries in Ireland. William Mitchell was, in fact, the only member of the reviled Black... read more »

Appleby Fair, 2010.Copyright G Woolnough 2010   Appleby Fair is here and I am again led to think about Gypsies. What my friends and neighbours say... read more »

On this date in 1884, U.S. Army Private Charles B. Henry of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (LFBE) was summarily executed in the distant northern reaches*... read more »

Tuesday, 5 June 1928: Beatrice Pace is moved from Cardiff Prison, where she has been held since being charged on 22 May, to Birmingham Prison. read more »

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's popular adage "well behaved women seldom make history" (sadly often attributed to Marilyn Munroe) has been used in a multitude... read more »

On this date in 1573, 19-year-old Frantz Schmidt — heretofore only an apprentice to his father’s craft — conducted his first solo hanging.... read more »

On this date in 1937, the German-American Jewish terrorist Helmut “Helle” Hirsch was decapitated at Plotzensee Prison. Hirsch (English Wikipedia... read more »

Monday, 4 June 1928: The 'committal proceedings' at Coleford end with the magistrates sending the case on to the next Gloucestershire assizes which open... read more »

(Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.) On this date in 1886, thirteen Catholic men and boys, as well as nine Anglican... read more »

On this date in 1810, Ohio’s Wyandot (aka Huron) tribe executed Leatherlips by tomahawk. This evocative name,* and his proper Wyandot name of Chief... read more »

One of the central issues in The Most Remarkable Woman in England revolves around the perceptions of gender roles in the inter-war period.There are many... read more »

(Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.) On this date in 1936, Australia’s Arnold Karl Sodeman was hanged at Pentridge... read more »

Friday, 1 June 1928: The Dean Forest Guardian reports that A. A. Purcell, Member of Parliament for the Forest of Dean, has started a legal defence fund... read more »