Master Detective June 2017

Master Detective June 2017

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Public executions were major crowd-pulling events in 19th-century Britain and Ireland,

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Public executions were major crowd-pulling events in 19th-century Britain and Ireland, with thousands sometimes gathering around the gallows to witness a killer’s demise. They Came To Watch The Hanging, a new series starting this month on page 40, will be looking back to those days and focusing on the cases that brought the killers to their date with the hangman. And we’re also on the look-out for any genuine photographs taken at such events. As far as we are aware none exist, but we’d be delighted to be proved wrong! Perhaps you had an ancestor who owned one of the early cameras and photographed a hanging, only for the photographs to be put away and forgotten. If you are in possession of any such photo, do let us know – we’ll pay £100 for the right to use it.

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