Author: West C. Gilbreath
Publisher: Wild Horse Press
ISBN: 9781681790527
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The most comprehensive work ever done on legal executions by hanging in Texas. Arranged by counties, this book documents 467 executions in Texas, many that have been forgotten through the years. Thoroughly researched by West Gilbreath, a career law enforcement officer, this book is a must for any Texas history buff.
Death on the Gallows
Author: West C. Gilbreath
Publisher: Wild Horse Press
ISBN: 9781681790527
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The most comprehensive work ever done on legal executions by hanging in Texas. Arranged by counties, this book documents 467 executions in Texas, many that have been forgotten through the years. Thoroughly researched by West Gilbreath, a career law enforcement officer, this book is a must for any Texas history buff.
Publisher: Wild Horse Press
ISBN: 9781681790527
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The most comprehensive work ever done on legal executions by hanging in Texas. Arranged by counties, this book documents 467 executions in Texas, many that have been forgotten through the years. Thoroughly researched by West Gilbreath, a career law enforcement officer, this book is a must for any Texas history buff.
Death Dealers
Author: M. G. Gallows
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
"Don't dawdle, Alex. My Keepers and I will be searching for that body. If we find it, you'll know." Sheriff Agni put a fist over his chest and splayed out his fingers. "Boom." A year after a nasty breakup and a big move, Alex Fossor feels like he's finally getting his life together. Then he gets framed for murder and the Rimbault Society--mages who secretly run the world--drag him before North America's Archmage. The only thing that stalls Alex's execution is the same evidence that could damn him, when the victim's body walks out of the morgue and disappears. Reviled for his death magic, Alex knows he'll have to prove his own innocence. But the mundane, the magical, the living and the dead are on his case. A beautiful stranger knows who the real culprit could be, but can Alex trust her to have his back? With time running out, Alex discovers a sinister plot to use arcane drugs to harvest the city's addicts. He'll have to embrace everything that makes him a monster in the eyes of the law, before a hex on his heart burns him to ash.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
"Don't dawdle, Alex. My Keepers and I will be searching for that body. If we find it, you'll know." Sheriff Agni put a fist over his chest and splayed out his fingers. "Boom." A year after a nasty breakup and a big move, Alex Fossor feels like he's finally getting his life together. Then he gets framed for murder and the Rimbault Society--mages who secretly run the world--drag him before North America's Archmage. The only thing that stalls Alex's execution is the same evidence that could damn him, when the victim's body walks out of the morgue and disappears. Reviled for his death magic, Alex knows he'll have to prove his own innocence. But the mundane, the magical, the living and the dead are on his case. A beautiful stranger knows who the real culprit could be, but can Alex trust her to have his back? With time running out, Alex discovers a sinister plot to use arcane drugs to harvest the city's addicts. He'll have to embrace everything that makes him a monster in the eyes of the law, before a hex on his heart burns him to ash.
Death on the Gallows
Author: West C. Gilbreath
Publisher: High Lonesome Books
ISBN: 9780944383575
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The most comprehensive work ever done on legal executions by hanging in New Mexico. Arranged by counties, this book documents 467 executions in Texas, many that have been forgotten through the years.
Publisher: High Lonesome Books
ISBN: 9780944383575
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The most comprehensive work ever done on legal executions by hanging in New Mexico. Arranged by counties, this book documents 467 executions in Texas, many that have been forgotten through the years.
Black Bird of the Gallows
Author: Meg Kassel
Publisher: Entangled: Teen
ISBN: 163375815X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
"A pleasingly original contribution to the paranormal-romance genre.” —Kirkus Reviews A simple but forgotten truth: Where harbingers of death appear, the morgues will soon be full. Angie Dovage can tell there’s more to Reece Fernandez than just the tall, brooding athlete who has her classmates swooning, but she can’t imagine his presence signals a tragedy that will devastate her small town. When something supernatural tries to attack her, Angie is thrown into a battle between good and evil she never saw coming. Right in the center of it is Reece—and he’s not human. What's more, she knows something most don't. That the secrets her town holds could kill them all. But that’s only half as dangerous as falling in love with a harbinger of death. Each book in the Black Bird of the Gallows series is STANDALONE: * Cleaner of Bones (Prequel) * Black Bird of the Gallows * Keeper of the Bees
Publisher: Entangled: Teen
ISBN: 163375815X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
"A pleasingly original contribution to the paranormal-romance genre.” —Kirkus Reviews A simple but forgotten truth: Where harbingers of death appear, the morgues will soon be full. Angie Dovage can tell there’s more to Reece Fernandez than just the tall, brooding athlete who has her classmates swooning, but she can’t imagine his presence signals a tragedy that will devastate her small town. When something supernatural tries to attack her, Angie is thrown into a battle between good and evil she never saw coming. Right in the center of it is Reece—and he’s not human. What's more, she knows something most don't. That the secrets her town holds could kill them all. But that’s only half as dangerous as falling in love with a harbinger of death. Each book in the Black Bird of the Gallows series is STANDALONE: * Cleaner of Bones (Prequel) * Black Bird of the Gallows * Keeper of the Bees
Sentenced to Death
Author: Colm Wallace
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992736491
Category : Assassins
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Superb account of capital punishment in 20th century Ireland. "Sentenced to Death gives an insight into why people were driven to commit the most heinous of crimes and makes for very interesting reading."-- InTouch Magazine. "Fascinating reflection on the justice system at the time." --Sligo Champion. "A riveting read."--Irish Examiner.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992736491
Category : Assassins
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Superb account of capital punishment in 20th century Ireland. "Sentenced to Death gives an insight into why people were driven to commit the most heinous of crimes and makes for very interesting reading."-- InTouch Magazine. "Fascinating reflection on the justice system at the time." --Sligo Champion. "A riveting read."--Irish Examiner.
The Sign of the Gallows
Author: Susanna Calkins
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 1448304695
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A dead man at a crossroads. A secret message. A ring with a warning about death . . . Printer’s apprentice Lucy Campion is caught up in a strange and puzzling murder case in this twisty historical mystery set in seventeenth-century London. London, 1667. On her way to a new market to peddle her True Accounts and Strange News, printer’s apprentice Lucy Campion quickly regrets her decision to take the northwestern road. Dark and desolate, the path leads her to the crossroads – and to the old hanging tree. She doesn’t believe in ghosts, but she’s not sure ghosts don’t believe in her. But before she even reaches the crossroads, she’s knocked off her feet by two men in a hurry. What were they running from? To her dismay, she soon discovers for herself: there, dangling from the tree, is the body of a man. Did he commit self-murder, or is there something darker afoot? The more Lucy learns, the more determined she is to uncover the truth. But this time, even the help and protection of magistrate’s son Adam, and steadfast Constable Duncan, may not be enough to keep her safe from harm . . .
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 1448304695
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A dead man at a crossroads. A secret message. A ring with a warning about death . . . Printer’s apprentice Lucy Campion is caught up in a strange and puzzling murder case in this twisty historical mystery set in seventeenth-century London. London, 1667. On her way to a new market to peddle her True Accounts and Strange News, printer’s apprentice Lucy Campion quickly regrets her decision to take the northwestern road. Dark and desolate, the path leads her to the crossroads – and to the old hanging tree. She doesn’t believe in ghosts, but she’s not sure ghosts don’t believe in her. But before she even reaches the crossroads, she’s knocked off her feet by two men in a hurry. What were they running from? To her dismay, she soon discovers for herself: there, dangling from the tree, is the body of a man. Did he commit self-murder, or is there something darker afoot? The more Lucy learns, the more determined she is to uncover the truth. But this time, even the help and protection of magistrate’s son Adam, and steadfast Constable Duncan, may not be enough to keep her safe from harm . . .
The Gallows Murders
Author: Michael Clynes
Publisher: St Martins Press
ISBN: 9780312146054
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
When the feared royal executioners begin to die grisly deaths themselves, Sir Roger Shallot must investigate
Publisher: St Martins Press
ISBN: 9780312146054
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
When the feared royal executioners begin to die grisly deaths themselves, Sir Roger Shallot must investigate
Walk Towards the Gallows
Author: Tom Mitchell
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442692146
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
On 5 July 1899 Hilda Blake, a 21-year-old maidservant in Brandon, Manitoba, who had come to Canada from England ten years earlier as an orphan immigrant, shot and killed her mistress. Two days after Christmas she was hanged, one of the few women in Canadian history to die for her crime. Blake unintentionally left a remarkable documentary record, ranging from Poorhouse records, courts dockets of custody and criminal cases in which she was the central figure, popular, journalistic, and professional assessments of her character, and a poem, 'My Downfall', that she penned in Brandon Gaol while awaiting execution. To explain why Hilda bought a gun and why she fired it, Kramer and Mitchell employee both historical and literary techniques. The result is a richly textured story of late Victorian social, cultural, and political life. This remarkable book - part mystery, part historical detective story - uncovers Hilda Blake's life, from her origins in Norfolk, England, to her tragic death. It also examines the lives of other principals in the story: successful Brandon businessman Robert Lane and his wife Mary, the murdered woman; Lane's business partner, Alexander McIlvride; Police Chief James Kircaldy; A.P. Stewart and his wife, Letitia Singer Stewart, the family for whom the 12-year-old orphaned Hilda first worked as a domestic servant; Rev. C.C. McLaurin, the Baptist minister who knew Hilda and counselled the condemned woman in her final days; social purity activist Dr Amelia Yeomans, who petitioned for clemency; Governor-General Minto, who urged the Laurier government to stay the execution, even Clifford Sifton, the MP from Brandon, federal minister of Immigration, and the most powerful western Liberal in the Laurier cabinet, for whom the case was a potential minefield. As the authors write, 'We tell a story because only a story can expose the real workings of a culture, and only a story can express our protest against time.'
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442692146
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
On 5 July 1899 Hilda Blake, a 21-year-old maidservant in Brandon, Manitoba, who had come to Canada from England ten years earlier as an orphan immigrant, shot and killed her mistress. Two days after Christmas she was hanged, one of the few women in Canadian history to die for her crime. Blake unintentionally left a remarkable documentary record, ranging from Poorhouse records, courts dockets of custody and criminal cases in which she was the central figure, popular, journalistic, and professional assessments of her character, and a poem, 'My Downfall', that she penned in Brandon Gaol while awaiting execution. To explain why Hilda bought a gun and why she fired it, Kramer and Mitchell employee both historical and literary techniques. The result is a richly textured story of late Victorian social, cultural, and political life. This remarkable book - part mystery, part historical detective story - uncovers Hilda Blake's life, from her origins in Norfolk, England, to her tragic death. It also examines the lives of other principals in the story: successful Brandon businessman Robert Lane and his wife Mary, the murdered woman; Lane's business partner, Alexander McIlvride; Police Chief James Kircaldy; A.P. Stewart and his wife, Letitia Singer Stewart, the family for whom the 12-year-old orphaned Hilda first worked as a domestic servant; Rev. C.C. McLaurin, the Baptist minister who knew Hilda and counselled the condemned woman in her final days; social purity activist Dr Amelia Yeomans, who petitioned for clemency; Governor-General Minto, who urged the Laurier government to stay the execution, even Clifford Sifton, the MP from Brandon, federal minister of Immigration, and the most powerful western Liberal in the Laurier cabinet, for whom the case was a potential minefield. As the authors write, 'We tell a story because only a story can expose the real workings of a culture, and only a story can express our protest against time.'
Reflections on the Way to the Gallows
Author: Mikiso Hane
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520084217
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
In this book, for the first time, we can hear the startling, moving voices of adventurous and rebellious Japanese women as they eloquently challenged the social repression of prewar Japan. The extraordinary women whose memoirs, recollections, and essays are presented here constitute a strong current in the history of modern Japanese life from the 1880s to the outbreak of the Pacific War.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520084217
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
In this book, for the first time, we can hear the startling, moving voices of adventurous and rebellious Japanese women as they eloquently challenged the social repression of prewar Japan. The extraordinary women whose memoirs, recollections, and essays are presented here constitute a strong current in the history of modern Japanese life from the 1880s to the outbreak of the Pacific War.
Women and the Gallows 1797-1837
Author: Naomi Clifford
Publisher: Pen & Sword History
ISBN: 9781473863347
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
"131 women were hanged in England and Wales between 1797 and 1837, executed for crimes including murder, baby-killing, theft, arson, sheep-stealing and passing forged bank notes. Most of them were extremely poor and living in desperate situations. Some were mentally ill. A few were innocent. And almost all are now forgotten, their voices unheard for generations. Mary Morgan – a teenager hanged as an example to others. Eliza Fenning – accused of adding arsenic to the dumplings. Mary Bateman – a ‘witch’ who duped her neighbours out of their savings. Harriet Skelton – hanged for passing counterfeit pound notes in spite of efforts by Elizabeth Fry and the Duke of Gloucester to save her. Naomi Clifford has unearthed the events that brought these ‘unfortunates’ to the gallows and has used contemporary newspaper accounts and documents to tell their stories"--
Publisher: Pen & Sword History
ISBN: 9781473863347
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
"131 women were hanged in England and Wales between 1797 and 1837, executed for crimes including murder, baby-killing, theft, arson, sheep-stealing and passing forged bank notes. Most of them were extremely poor and living in desperate situations. Some were mentally ill. A few were innocent. And almost all are now forgotten, their voices unheard for generations. Mary Morgan – a teenager hanged as an example to others. Eliza Fenning – accused of adding arsenic to the dumplings. Mary Bateman – a ‘witch’ who duped her neighbours out of their savings. Harriet Skelton – hanged for passing counterfeit pound notes in spite of efforts by Elizabeth Fry and the Duke of Gloucester to save her. Naomi Clifford has unearthed the events that brought these ‘unfortunates’ to the gallows and has used contemporary newspaper accounts and documents to tell their stories"--