Tag: World War One

• On This Day in 1934, Ethel Lillie Major.

  

  Normally this time of year would be cause for celebration, a time of Christmas cheer and goodwill to all men. That wasn’t the case for Ethel Major who stood condemned for the murder of her husband Arthur. For her the previous couple of days had been spent sobbing and incoherent as she pondered her imminent…

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  December 19, 2019

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized

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• On This Day in 1918; Privates Ernest Jackson and Louis Harris, Shot Four Days Before The Armistice.

  

  Considering the time of year, it seemed appropriate to remember those who went to war but never came back. That and this isn’t yet another extended plug for my new book. During the First World War the British Army passed over 3000 death sentences and carried out over 300 executions by firing squad. Around 10%…

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  November 7, 2019

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• Edith Cavell – Hand-wringing propaganda is not enough. Nor does it do her any service.

  

  “I am glad to die for my country.” – The last words of Edith Cavell. Edith Cavell was shot by a German firing squad at the Tir National rifle range near Brussels on October 12, 1915, having been convicted by a German military court of aiding the enemy by helping Allied soldiers and escaped prisoners…

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  October 12, 2015

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• Josef Jakobs – the Last Execution At The Tower Of London.

  

  The Tower of London, nowadys a popular tourist destination. Once also a prison, defensive fortress, a crime scene (if you believe, as I do, that the ‘Princes in the Tower’ were murdered here) and also the site of a number of execution. Anne Boleyn, Lady Jane Grey (who was the shortest-reigning Queen in British history,…

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  September 7, 2014

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• Paul Jawarski – Pennsylvania’s Phantom Dynamiter.

  

  Meet Paul Poluszynski, alias ‘Paul Jawarski’, known throughout Pennsylvania as ‘The Phantom.’ Before the end of his extremely violent (and, some might say, mercifully brief) criminal career he claimed to have killed twenty-six people including four police officers and a payroll security guard. His gang, the ‘Flatheads’, also committed the first-ever robbery using a landmine.…

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  August 19, 2014

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