Hanging a Twelve Year Old, Lancaster 1812 March 27, 2018
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
The Cripple’s Death It says something terrible about Britain’s nineteenth-century legal system. In 1812 a twelve year old was brought to the scaffold for having broken a window. He was barely able to walk, needing crutches: in fact, he was a ‘cripple’: he had been put on a man’s shoulder’s to break the window and […]
Misfortunes with Severed Heads: Richard Owen and Lancaster Jail April 17, 2012
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
Beachcombing regrets that he cannot provide the primary source for the following anecdote from Richard Owen’s early life. Anyone lucky enough to have instant access to mid nineteenth-century periodicals will find it in Hood’s Magazine and Comic Miscellany vol 3 (1845), 294-303. Beach is taking this paraphrase from the excellent Dinosaur Hunters by Deborah Cadbury, […]
