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From "The Life of Garibaldi" (undated) 19th Century with color litho illustrations. An early example of color printing in a book. I bought the book in Lancaster at a Vintage Book Shop not far from the Judges Lodgings.
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The case of “Brownout Strangler” Eddie Leonski is one of the most famous serial killer cases in Australia’s history. As Leonski was a US serviceman when he committed the murders, he was tried under American Military Law. The National Archives holds the official report (which is on open access). Among the files in our holdings is a copy of the NAA-held file made by Victoria Police after the trial. The Victoria Police copy includes later correspondence with the US and communication with a journalist writing a book about Leonski. To learn more about the case read our blog: Afraid of the darkness prov.vic.gov.au/about-us/our-blog/afraid-darkness
Execution Rocks Lighthouse
National Lighthouse Museum
Signature "Halloween" Tour
Out of Staten Island, NY
October 30, 2021
Public Domain. Suggested credit: Library of Congress via pingnews. Additional information from source:
TITLE: Paying the death penalty for crime - garroting a criminal at Bilibid Prison, Manila, P.I.
CALL NUMBER: STEREO FOREIGN GEOG FILE - Philippine Islands--Manila [item] [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-66689 (b&w film copy neg. of half stereo)
No known restrictions on publication.
MEDIUM: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: c1901.
NOTES:
Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood.
This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
Caption card tracings: Criminals and crime--1901; Executions--Garrote; Photog. I.; Philippine I.--Manila; Geogr.; Shelf.
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b14178 hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b14178
CARD #: 2003690131
Title:
Died thirty minutes after trap sprung. Legal execution of Harrison Alexander took place last Friday.
Subjects:
Alexander, Harrison
Capital punishment
1900s
Publisher:
The Hartford Republican [Hartford, KY]
Date:
16 Aug 1907
Page:
1
Creator:
Newspapers.com, retrieved 13 June 2018
Identifier:
alexander_harrison_hartford_republican_16aug1907_p1
The Postcard
A carte postale published by Ernest Le Deley of Paris. The card was posted via the British Army Post Office on Sunday the 21st April 1918.
The sender of the card has made an ineffectual attempt to censor the Poperinghe name.
The message on the back of the card was as follows:
"My Darling Blanche,
How is my Love today, in
the best of health I hope.
I am keeping ever so well
myself Sweetheart and
everything going well with
me.
Am living very comfortably
and being looked after
very well.
Received your loving and
newsy letter dated the 15th.
this morning to cheer and
comfort my lonely life.
How I am longing to see you
Dearest and how I am hoping
that soon I shall be with you
to enjoy our happy and loving
times together.
Received parcel yesterday
Sweetheart - many thanks for
food and chocolate.
But darling I hope you do not
go short of chocolate as I can
get some very nice stuff out
here.
But my Sweetheart is always
thinking of me as she knows
how fond of it I am.
Saw Mr. B. today, he is living
quite near me.
Kindest regards to Mrs. S
Fondest love to my Darling Wife".
The British Army Postal Service
During the Great War, the British Army Postal Service despatched over two billion letters and cards. Assuming an average length of 6 inches, if they were laid end to end they would stretch for 189,394 miles (304,800km) - that's over seven and a half times round the Earth's equator.
The Great War lasted for 1,567 days, therefore the Postal Service were kept busy handling an average of over 1¼ million pieces of mail every day of the war's duration.
Poperinghe
Poperinghe (also spelled Poperinge) is a town in the Belgian province of West Flanders. It has a history going back to medieval times.
Poperinghe is situated about 8 miles to the west of Leper/Ypres. As well as lace production, the region is famous for growing hops, and supplies 80% of Belgian production.
The town is home to the National Hops Museum, and is nicknamed 'Hops City'. A hop festival and parade is held every three years in September. One of the local brews is known as Hommel (which means hops in the local dialect).
There are over 800 different types of beer in Belgium. Another of the famous local beers is Sixtus, which is brewed in the St.-Sixtus Abbey near Proven, about 2.5 miles (4 km) north-west of Poperinge.
Poperinghe in the Great War
During the Great War, the town was one of only two in Belgium that was not under German occupation.
Throughout the Great War Poperinghe, or 'Pops' as British soldiers called it, was used by the British Army as a gateway to the battlefields of the northern Ypres Salient.
Poperinghe was an important rail centre just behind the front line, and was used for the distribution of supplies, for billeting troops, for casualty clearing stations and for troops at rest from duty in the forward trench areas. Vast numbers of troops passed through this small town at some time or other.
The main square of Poperinghe formed the hub of five main roads leading into the town, and was therefore constantly bustling with military traffic, military personnel and those civilians who had stayed on in the town.
Artillery and Aerial Bomb Attacks
Because of its importance to the military behind the front Allied lines, the town was frequently targeted by long range German artillery. During the Third Battle of Ypres (31st. July - 10th. November 1917) Poperinge and the surrounding area was repeatedly bombed by German aircraft. Some bombs landed on the Casualty Clearing Stations nearby.
Toc H
The town formed an important link for soldiers and their families, especially through the rest house known as Talbot House (or 'Toc H'). It was established by the Reverend 'Tubby' Clayton in December 1915 as an 'Everyman's Club' for soldiers and officers of the British Army. It is now a museum.
'Toc H' is a shortened form of Talbot House, with 'Toc' signifying the letter T in the signals spelling alphabet used by the British Army in the Great War.
Death Cells
A grim reminder of that time remains within the town hall, where two death cells are preserved, and outside in the courtyard, where there is a public execution post that was used by firing squads.
Military Cemeteries
Another reminder of the Great War is the location of a number of military cemeteries on the outskirts of the town which contain the graves of Canadian, British, Australian, French, German, and American servicemen, as well as men of the Chinese Labour Corps.
One of these cemeteries is Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery for soldiers who had been wounded near Ypres and later died in the large Allied casualty clearing stations located in the area.
Shot at Dawn
Sergeant John T. Wall of Bockleton, near Tenbury, Worcestershire had enlisted in the Worcestershire Regiment as a drummer boy aged 16 in 1912, and served bravely in many actions on the Western Front from the beginning of the Great War.
At 5.25 am on the 6th September 1917, Sergeant Wall was executed by firing squad at Poperinghe for desertion. He was 22 years of age.
He is buried in Poperinghe New Military Cemetery. His parents William and Harriet Wall placed the following inscription on his gravestone:
'For ever with the Lord'.
He was one of hundreds of British soldiers of the Great War who were shot by their own men for supposed cowardice or desertion.
Sergeant Wall was executed at dawn for refusing to take his men to a near-certain death. He had spent the night before in one of the death cells referred to above.
The ground he was supposed to cover was a pestilent porridge of poison gas-soaked, bomb-cratered mud that had been turned into a glutinous, knee-deep swamp by a previous heavy thunderstorm. The area was intensively raked by enemy shells and machine gun fire.
He was charged with desertion and executed, although refusing to lead his men in a suicidal attack was in reality good soldiering common sense. Common sense was however, sadly often in short supply in the upper hierarchy of the British Army during the Great War.
A Typical Execution
The condemned private spends his last night in a small room, alone with his thoughts before his execution at dawn. He might be writing painful letters to family and friends. He is also likely to be encouraged to drink heavily in order to be insensible during execution. The private is guarded by two military policemen (MPs or redcaps) and ministered by a chaplain.
The condemned man’s commanding officer (CO) orders a company of men to witness the execution, wanting to set an example to other would-be deserters. Meanwhile a firing squad assembles, sick with nerves, in the dawn light. Some of the men know the condemned and have mixed feelings about his fate, some even carrying deep resentment at having to execute him. Their rifles have been pre-loaded—one with a blank—to take some of the individual responsibility away from shooting their fighting pal.
The condemned man is led, blind drunk, to a post by two redcaps, his hands tied behind his back. The lieutenant waits at the side of the shooting party, with a medical officer (MO). The lieutenant (Lt.) gives the order to shoot the prisoner. Some deliberately shoot wide. Two of the men vomit on the spot. The MO checks the prisoner over and concludes that the private is mortally wounded, but not dead. The young lieutenant, with shaky hands, administers the coup de grâce: a bullet to the head.
A military ambulance stands by to take the corpse off to be buried. That same evening the battalion colonel writes a letter to the private’s parents informing them that their son has been shot at the front. He leaves the message deliberately ambiguous, sparing the man’s family any difficult feelings about his execution.
Posthumous Pardons
The 'Shot at Dawn' Memorial in Alrewas, Staffordshire, originally contained the names of 306 men who were executed for 'cowardice' or 'desertion'.
With many now recognised as having been suffering from mental illnesses such as post-traumatic stress disorder, these men were posthumously pardoned by Royal Assent in November 2006.
The Staffordshire memorial was created to honour their sacrifices, along with all those who died in combat fighting for the British Empire during the Great War.
200,000 serving soldiers were officially court-martialled by the British High Command during the Great War.
Of these, 20,000 were found guilty of offences that carried the death penalty. 3,000 officially received it, although most of these sentences were subsequently commuted.
In the end, of the 3,000, 346 executions were carried out by firing squad.
Now, of the 40 names left off the Shot at Dawn Memorial, three have been added, thanks to the persistence of memorial creator Andy DeComyn.
They are New Zealander Jack Braithwaite, Gunner William Lewis from Scotland, and Jesse Robert Short, from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
Jack Braithwaite
Braithwaite's 'mutiny', according to the Birmingham Mail, consisted of nothing more than a misdemeanour.
The bohemian former journalist, who'd confessed at his trial to not being a natural soldier, had tried to calm down a belligerent prisoner at Blargies prison in Rouen by taking the man to his tent to feed him.
The soldier, Private Little, had been a ringleader in a small uprising against the prison guards. But Little was an Australian, and couldn't be executed because Australia's government wouldn't allow Great Britain to execute its soldiers.
Unfortunately Braithwaite was a New Zealander, and could be executed. His attempt to defuse the potential riot (sparked by appalling conditions at the prison) involved him leading Little away from the custody of a staff sergeant, which officially amounted to mutiny.
Jack was subsequently shot by firing squad on the 28th. August 1916.
Gunner William Lewis
Jack's execution occurred within five minutes of Gunner William Lewis, who'd also been involved in the uprising at the prison.
Corporal Jesse Short
Meanwhile, Corporal Jesse Short was condemned to death for uttering:
"Put a rope around that bugger's neck,
tie a stone to it and throw him into the
river".
He was said to be inciting guards barring his exit from the infamous 'Bull Ring' training camp to rebel against their officer.
This was the September 1917 Étaples Mutiny, an uprising by around 80 servicemen rebelling against what are now acknowledged to have been harsh and unreasonable conditions at the camp.
The uprising was depicted in the 1978 book (and 1986 BBC series) 'The Monocled Mutineer', the lead character in which is said to have been based at least partially on Corporal Short.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, confirmed Short's death sentence (as he had Lewis's a year earlier).
Short, Lewis, and Braithwaite received their pardons and have been honoured along with comrades who fell in battle.
The remaining 37 men who were shot, according to Richard Pursehouse of the Staffordshire military history research group the Chase Project, were not executed for mutiny, but murder.
As this also would have resulted in a death sentence even under civil law codes of the time, it was decided that their names should not be added to the memorial.
The Red Baron
So what else happened on the day that the card was written?
Well, the 21st. April 1918 was not a good day for Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, AKA The Red Baron, because on that day he was shot down and killed while flying over the Western Front. He was 25 years of age when he died.
Palestinian poet and artist Ashraf Fayadh scheduled for execution today in Saudi Arabia The Palestinian artist, curator, and poet Ashraf Fayadh, 35, is scheduled for execution by beheading today, Thursday, January 14, 2016. Saudi Arabian authorities have declared his crime as “apostasy,” or abandoning one’s religion—in this case, renouncing Islam. Several other charges were also leveled against Fayadh, including allegedly photographing women and storing their pictures on his phone, a violation of the country’s Anti-Cyber Crime Law. He pleaded his innocence to all the charges. Amnesty International UK states that, “Throughout this whole process, Ashraf was denied access to a lawyer—a clear violation of international human rights law, as well as Saudi Arabia’s national laws.” - See more at: ift.tt/1JMLqWK See more at: ift.tt/1JMLqWK - ift.tt/1PdBIc1
Birkenau execution camp - taken from guard tower 3
Category: 3 Cities4: Auschwitz2, Budapest1
Tags: Trips from Vienna;Krakow
København - Danmark - 2012 (N1293)
Description: dessin, buste, homme, dos, arme, revolver, bras tendu; monochrome, noir
Action: tirer, tuer
Référence: Le général Nguyễn Ngọc Loan (1930 - 1998) était le chef de la police sud-vietnamienne. Il est connu pour avoir sommairement exécuté, dans une rue de Saïgon, un capitaine Việt Cộng, Nguyễn Văn Lém, devant des journalistes, dont le photographe américain Eddie Adams de l'Associated Press, le 1er février 1968. Le cliché que prit celui-ci fut publié à la une de la plupart des journaux du monde, et lui fit gagner le prix Pulitzer.
The garrote consisted of a brass collar with a back piece pushed forward by the impulse of a big screw working through a post. The neck of the condemned was placed in the brass collar, and when the executioner turned the handle of the screw, the back piece in the collar pressed against the top of the spine, thereby snapping the spinal cord. PHOTO was taken in 1898.
(Photo courtesy of Philippine-American War website written and compiled by Arnaldo Dumindin)
Hanging is the lethal suspension of a person by a ligature. Scientifically, the person dies by strangulation.
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A soldier is silhouetted at the Juarez Avenue border crossing in the USA as by a memorial to women killed in violence in Juarez, Mexico January 14, 2009. An ongoing drug war has already claimed more than 40 people since the start of the year. More than 1600 people were killed in Juarez in 2008, making Juarez the most violent city in Mexico. (Photo by Richard Ellis)
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