Ten women were to suffer in Lancaster. Hannah Eastwood, who was hanged on Saturday, 2 May 1801 for falsifying 1 euro expenses in Manchester.
She is the first woman executed in the county since 1772 and executed along with 3 men who were also convicted of forgery.
Mary Jackson was hanged for burglary in a residential house in 1806 and Mary Chandler for the same crime two years later, while Hannah Smith, sentenced to death for the crime of riots in 1812, along with seven men.
Susanna Holroyd suffered the murder of her husband in 1816 (her body was later dissatened), and Jenny Cheatham was hanged on September 20, 1817 for pronouncing with four men, Margaret Dowd was hanged for pronouncing in 1818 and Rachael Bradley for the murder of her son in 1827.
The last woman hanged in Lancaster Mary Holden, 29, on March 19, 1834, for the murder of her husband Roger, 40, with arsenic at Hurst Green on February 24, 1834.
After 1835, Lancaster’s role as a city of seating was reduced to serve only the northern parts of the county. Liverpool had their own seats, with convicts hanged in Kirkdale Prison, which was nevertheless closed and demolished in 1897.
Since 1864, Manchester also a city of Assizes with its executions carried out in Salford and later in The Prisons of Strangeways. Lancaster’s executions declined dramatically as a result, as well as the abundant relief in the number of capital crimes recorded in the Statute. from 1838. No there were additional executions in Lancaster until 1853.
In 1862, Walker Moore, who had murdered his in Colne, managed to kill himself on the morning of the execution on August 30.
In the past I had told the court that there was no rope that could simply hang it. That morning, he asked permission to use the bathroom and controlled to drown in the giant cistern serving several cabins. The criminals were very disappointed that their entertainment was stolen!
The last public execution in Lancaster took place on March 25, 1865, when Stephen Burke died through William Calcraft for the murder of his wife in Preston.
After that, there will be six executions left, all in private.
William Marwood officiated at the premiere on Monday, August 16, 1875, the double hanging of William M’Cullough, 36, who murdered his tenant, William Watson, and Mark Fiddler, 24, who had killed his wife. the only double hung in private.
On Monday, February 11, 1879, Marwood to hang another murderous woman, this time William McGuiness, 40.
Alfred Sowery, 24, shot and killed his girlfriend, Annie Kelly, for whom he sentenced to death.
In Lancaster’s doomed cell, terror gripped his stage and, according to James Berry, has become “seriously ill. ” On the morning of the execution, Monday, August 1, 1887, Sowery had to be dragged to the gallows crying and screaming. Here he kicked Berry in the leg so hard that Berry definitely left a scar. However, his execution proceeded normally.
On Friday, February 9, 1886, Joseph Bains hanged through James Berry for the murder of his wife in Barrow.
After a 24-year hiatus, Thomas Rawcliffe, 31, is the latest user to be executed at the castle.
Capital Punishment UK published this account of his execution on his Facebook page: “Thomas Rawcliffe, 31, executed for the murder of his wife, Louisa Ann, 27, whom he had strangled at 1 Tyler’s Yard in Cheapside, Lancaster around 7 p. m. Tuesday, September 6, 1910.
“It turns out that their marriage was generally happy, when Rawcliffe had drunk. The couple had three children.
“The day after the murder, Rawcliffe met PC Thomas Wilkinson, who was patrolling at his own pace. He told Wilkinson “I killed my wife” and took him home to see Louisa’s body. Here, he arrested him.
“He told the officer that Louisa was in poor health in recent years and that they had a suicide pact. He had to strangle her and then take rat poison. “
“A bottle of this discovered in space without some of the content.
Rawcliffe attempted in Lancaster on 27 October 1910 before Judge Avory and it turned out that he had suffered a serious head injury as a child, possibly explaining his violent sequence.
“He had fallen out of a second-floor window and did not regain consciousness for about six weeks. The jury thanked him with his verdict. ” Several thousand people signed a petition for suspension, but this and the jury council were rejected through the Minister of the Interior. Thus, on Tuesday, November 15, 1910, John Ellis, assisted through William Willis, executed the death sentence.
Lancashire hired its own executioner, as maximum counties in the 1700s and early 1800s, of the population.
The only one with the data is still Edward Barlow, a Welsh ‘gentleman’ known as ‘Old Ned’.
Barlow died in the castle on December 9, 1812, according to the castle archives, after being imprisoned there for stealing a horse. Horse theft was a capital crime in itself at the time, however, Barlow’s execution was a challenge for the government as executioners were hard to obtain; his sentence was commuted to 10 years in prison on the condition that he continue with executions and floggings; It is estimated that there were 71 hangings between 1782 and 1812.
It is not known who succeeded Barlow, possibly the executioner of neighboring Yorkshire.
Samuel Haywood was active here in the 1830s and most likely officiated in the triple hanging of assassins William Worrall, Ashton Worrall and Moses Fernley on March 14, 1831.
In the scaffold, William Worrall took off his shoes. It was an idea to be a form of message for his mother, who told him that he would never die without shoes unless his habit was advanced (a trail of hanging). Haywood carried out up to 18 executions here until March 26, 1835, when he hanged John Orell for the murder of his eight-year-old daughter.
William Calcraft’s first execution in Lancaster was that of the wife’s killer, Richard Pedder, on August 27, 1853. The rope he used for this hanging is still shown in the fall room, unfortunately deteriorated.
As with the rest of the country, Calcraft succeeded through Marwood, Berry and Ellis.
Thank you for capital Punishment UK’s contribution for all the details in this article.