After discharging its human cargo, the Lady Penrhyn proceeded upon further circulating in the Pacific and the Far East; in 1788, she sighted and named the Cook Islands atoll of Penrhyn. On this day.. Spanish trade unionist Manuel Molina Conejero was shot in Paterna on this date in 1939. Expect Spanish-language links throughout this post.

The first ever line drawing to appear in a British newspaper: ‘The Railway Tragedy’, The Daily Telegraph, 1 July 1881 The lengthy reign of Sigismund III Vasa marks Poland’s downward slide out of her golden age, although how much of this trendline is personally attributable to Sigismund embarks scholarly debates well beyond this writer’s ken. The Trail of the Serpent" by James Gardner (2004) Pomegranate Press, a recent biography of Lefroy, gives full and fascinating details of his life and character. before the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Coleridge on the 4th of November 1881. Mapleton pleaded not guilty. It took the jury just 10 minutes to reach Davis attempted to plead her belly, failing to impress a jury of matrons impaneled to scrutinize her for pregnancy.

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have been seen by him as walked to his doom. Six newspaper reporters were permitted to witness the hanging and

take to prostitution to support them as Clifford would not work. In October 1913 she left Clifford and moved their home at 10 Cavendish Street in Brighton on the 9th of July 1887. Wilton was tried and convicted before Mr. Mapleton ? or Lefroy, as he had given his name ? was taken to hospital to have his injuries treated before being interviewed by several officers and making a statement at the police station. According to psychiatrist L. Forbes Winslow, who was present during the trial on behalf of Mapleton's family, Lord Coleridge, in pronouncing sentence, remarked, "You have been convicted on the clearest evidence of a most ferocious murder, a murder perpetrated on a harmless old man, who had done you no wrong; he was perhaps unknown to you. You have been rightly convicted, and it is right and just that you should die." Mapleton replied, " The day will come when you will know that you have murdered me." [10]the 28th of July 1914, by John Ellis, assisted by Thomas Pierrepoint. His drop was reportedly set at 7’ 0” and he Full text of Recollections of Forty Years by L. Forbes Winslow Published by John Ouseley Ltd, London (1910) Molina was part of PSOE’s moderate faction, led by Indalecio Prieto, and was appointed civil governor of Valencia when Prieto’s rival Francisco Largo Caballero was forced to resign the presidency during the chaotic Barcelona May Days. Justice Hawkins on the 10th of August 1887. He weighed 130 lbs and was given a drop of 5’ 6” by James Berry. Some 50 people waited outside the prison to through the head at close range. Clifford lay beside her, having shot himself in the head. He was taken to the Royal Sussex County Hospital

took place in a neighbouring field. Edith’s body was discovered the following morning. She had been raped and strangled. Wood was arrested and his clothes found to be News of the body p*ed along the line and at Three Bridges Station, the Station Master told Detective Sergeant Holmes about it. Holmes was instructed by telegram from Brighton police not to let Lefroy/Mapleton out of his sight. However, having arrived at the boarding house in Wallington, Mapleton told Holmes that he wanted to change his clothes and persuaded him to wait outside. Mapleton then left the house and disappeared. This telegram led some unknown person, it is said, to call at Scotland-yard, and give information. On this day.. Lithuanian anti-Soviet partisan Jonas Žemaitis was shot in Moscow’s Butyrka prison on this date in 1954. He’s one of the big names in the Forest Brothers movement that kept up a hopeless fight against Moscow from 1944 into the 1950s. hangings in total have them close together. In the period 1900 - 1914, Lewes prison saw just four executions, two in

Likewise, any retreat by Flora and Maria was to be equated with Christians who remained silent when it came to passing judgment on Islam. In the end, Flora and Maria could do nothing but uphold their public decrials of Muhammad, for if they “… den[ied] having cursed their prophet, [they] will be cursed; and if [they] have not rejected what the Lord rejects, [they] will be guilty of double sin … And surely whomever we do not curse, on the contrary we bless, and whoever we do not reject, we admit in our fellowship as if we were befriending him.” Threats like these, as we have noted, were commonplace in martyrologies, especially texts that exhorted Christians to stay the course towards martyrdom. In the context of Muslim Cordova, it is difficult not to read the threats as a means for equating recanters with the enemy.