Females Publicly Hanged 1800-1868

Between January 1800 and April 1868 in the British Isles (including Ireland and the Isle of Man), 206 women and girls were taken to places of public execution and there hanged by the neck until they were dead, in accordance with the sentence of the court.
The last woman to be hanged in public was 25 year old Frances Kidder, who was executed in front of Maidstone prison at midday on Thursday, the 2nd of April 1868.  She had murdered Louisa Kidder-Staples, her 11 year old stepdaughter, by drowning her in a ditch.
From the 29th of May 1868, all executions were carried out inside prisons and a further 41 women were hanged in private in the British Isles (including Southern Ireland up to 1925). Twenty three of these hangings were carried out in the 19th century and 18 in the 20th century.  Where names below are in blue please click the hyperlink for a detailed account of this case.

DateNameAgePlace of executionCrime
1800 – 7 hanged
29/01/1800Mary Connor Cork (Gallows Green)Murder
17/03/1800Mary Thorpe York (Knavesmire)Murder of her bastard child.
12/04/1800Sarah Bailey25York (Knavesmire) (hanged with 2 men)Forgery
23/04/1800Sarah Lloyd19Bury St EdmundsStealing in a dwelling house.
31/07/1800Ann Mead16HertfordMurder of Charles Proctor
23/08/1800Elizabeth Johnson York (Knavesmire)Uttering forgery
18/10/1800Mary Lloyd Boughton (Cheshire)Forgery
1801 – 7
01/04/1801Hannah Palmer Warwick (hanged with her brother John)Murder of Mrs. Palmer (wife of John)
13/04/1801Alice Clarke RuthinMurder of baby daughter
17/04/1801Elizabeth Burne Naas (Ireland)Murder of Catherine Dale
02/05/1801Hannah Eastwood Lancaster CastleForgery (hanged with 2 men)
23/07/1801Susanna Mottershall23Lincoln CastleMurder of Samuel Glem
03/08/1801Ann Baker Rutland
(hanged with 1 man)		Killing and stealing sheep
07/08/1801Sarah Claridge WarwickMurder of her son age 4
1802 – 3
16/03/1802Mary Voce24NottinghamMurder of her baby
12/04/1802Maria Davis and Charlotte Bobbett20BristolMurder of her son Richard Davis
23Aiding above murder
1803 – 3
15/04/1803Mary Lappidge WarwickUttering forgery
01/08/1803Martha Chapple19York CastleMurder of bastard child
11/08/1803Sarah Jones26ShrewsburyRevenge murder of her female child
1804 – 3
08/02/1804Ann Hurle22NewgateForgery (hanged with 1 man)
12/03/1804Elizabeth Caesar (Carter) Winchester
(hanged with 2 men)		Murder of her female bastard
19/03/1804Elizabeth Laughan (Largham) ChelmsfordMurder of bastard child
1805 – 6
18/03/1805Ann Heywood York CastleMurder of her child
25/03/1805Elizabeth Barber53MaidstoneMurder of John Daly
13/04/1805Mary Morgan17PresteigneMurder of bastard child
03/05/1805Ann Davis (Gordon) Horsham CommonMurder of a child
12/08/1805Elizabeth Rogers 32ExeterMurder of William Rogers
13/11/1805Mary Parnell23NewgateForgery (hanged with 2 men)
1806 – 2
08/04/1806Sarah Herring Horsemonger Lane SurreyHigh Treason coining
(hanged with 3 men)
19/04/1806Mary Jackson Lancaster CastleStealing in dwelling house
1807 – 3
07/01/1807Margaret Cunningham EdinburghMurder of her husband
23/02/1807Elizabeth Godfry or Godfrey34Newgate
(hanged with 2 men)		Murder of Richard Prince
(A large number of spectators were killed & injured at this execution)
31/07/1807Martha Aldin32NorwichP/T murder of her husband
1808 – 3
10/02/1808Barbara Malcolm EdinburghMurder – child
28/03/1808Sarah Pugh HerefordMurder of her 12 year old daughter
09/04/1808Mary Chandler19Lancaster CastleStealing in dwelling house
1809 – 3
22/02/1809Mary Barrington (aka
Margaret Grimes)		31Newgate
(hanged with 1 man)		Making a false oath to obtain property
20/03/1809Mary Bateman41York CastleMurder (“The Yorkshire Witch”)
18/08/1809Susan Grant64WarwickHigh Treason coining
1810 – 6
12/03/1810Rebecca Blundell WinchesterMurder of her bastard child
24/03/1810Jane Curran WinchesterForgery (hanged with 5 men)
07/04/1810Francis Thompson York CastleUttering (hanged with 4 men)
13/06/1810Melinda Mapson26Newgate
(hanged with 1 man)		Robbery in a dwelling house
22/08/1810Mary Costigan TipperaryMurder of Nicholas Maher
13/08/1810Betty Amphlett21GloucesterMurder of her bastard child
1811- 2
12/08/1811Jane Cox31ExeterMurder of John Tremman (child)
30/03/1811Eleanor Shiel TipperaryChild murder
1812 – 3
23/03/1812Elizabeth Smith Ipswich
(hanged with 2 men)		Murder of her daughter (husband John also hanged for this)
13/06/1812Hannah Smith54Lancaster CastleRiot (hanged with 3 men)
12/08/1812Catherine Foster36Newgate
(hanged with 1 man)		Making false oath on a will
1813 – 8
29/03/1813Ann Arnold IpswichMurder of her bastard child
02/04/1813Catherine Donovan Cork
(Gallows Green)		Murder of Ellen M’Carthy
05/04/1813Sarah Fletcher19Horsemonger LaneChild murder
23/04/1813Edith Morrey35ChesterMurder of her husband, George
(her co-defendant was hanged on 24/08/1812, but Edith was respited as she was pregnant)
06/08/1813Azubah Fountain Lincoln CastleP/T murder of her husband
(hanged with 1 man)
06/09/1813Elizabeth Osborne20BodminArson
29/12/1813Christian Sinclair60EdinburghMurder – child
1814 – 3
28/03/1814Mary Gibbs IpswichMurder of her bastard child
(hanged with 1 man)
20/04/1814Sarah Owens IlchesterStealing in dwelling house
(hanged with 1 man)
01/08/1814Mary Cook DorchesterMurder of her bastard child
1815 – 6
28/03/1815Sarah White SalisburyArson (hanged with 1 man)
03/04/1815Sarah Woodward25IpswichMurder of her bastard child
19/07/1815Jane Mulholland ArmaghP/T murder of her husband (hanged with co-defendant Robert Edgar)
25/07/1815Elizabeth Woolterton49IpswichMurder of Robert Sparkes (infant)
26/07/1815Elizabeth Fenning21NewgateAttempted murder
(hanged with 2 men)
04/08/1815Honora Houraghan40Cork (Gallows Green)P/T murder of her husband
1816 – 3
11/03/1816Sarah Cook HertfordMurder of her infant son
07/09/1816Dinah Riddiford69GloucesterBurglary
16/09/1816Susanna Holroyd Lancaster CastleP/T murder of her husband
1817 – 8
24/02/1817Sarah Perry33NewgateMurder of her child
05/03/1817Elizabeth Fricker30NewgateBurglary
(hanged with 6 men)
15/03/1817Elizabeth Whiting Lincoln CastleMurder of her female infant
21/03/1817Ann Statham28StaffordMurder of her bastard child
14/04/1817Ann Hawlin28WarwickMurder of her child
(hanged with 1 man)
26/07/1817Elizabeth Warriner Lincoln CastleMurder of 11 year old son, John
20/09/1817Jenny Cheatham Lancaster CastleUttering (hanged with 4 men)
17/10/1817Margaret Crossan50AyrArson
1818 – 8
17/02/1818Charlotte Newman & Mary Ann James33
20		NewgateForgery (hanged with 2 men)
10/04/1818Mary Connell Cork (Gallows Green)Murder of Margaret Manning
18/04/1818Margaret Dowd Lancaster CastleUttering (hanged with 4 men)
24/04/1818Harriet Skelton33NewgateUttering (hanged with 1 man)
24/04/1818Ann Bamford WarwickUttering
04/05/1818Ann Tye38GloucesterMurder of her baby, Phoebe Tye
11/08/1818Bridget Murray CavanP/T murder of her husband
1819 – 6
08/03/1819Sarah Huntingford61Winchester
(Gallows Hill)		P/T murder of her husband
12/03/1819Sarah Hurst AylesburyP/T murder of her husband, William
22/03/1819Hannah Bocking16DerbyMurder of Jane Grant
22/03/1819Mary Woodman30ExeterP/T murder of her husband
29/03/1819Mary McGarry DownpatrickChild murder
23/04/1819Mary Bissaker56WarwickCoining (High Treason)
1820 – 4
12/04/1820Ann Heytrey22WarwickPetty treason murder of mistress – Mrs. Dormer
12/08/1820Sarah Polgreen (or Polgrean)34BodminP/T murder of husband, Henry
16/08/1820Rebecca Worlock36GloucesterP/T murder of her husband, Thomas
05/12/1820Sarah Price43NewgateUttering (hanged with 5 men)
1821 – 9
10/03/1821Mary Clarke NorthamptonP/T murder of her husband
(hanged with male co defendant)
14/03/1821Margaret Plunkett29Trim (Co. Meath)P/T murder of her husband
14/03/1821Frances Gilligan18Trim (Co. Meath)Aiding Plunkett above
31/03/1821Esther Waters LeicesterMurder of Elizabeth Clarke aged 3
04/05/1821Bridget Butterly
Bridget Ennis		 DublinMurder of Miss Thompson
13/08/1821Ann Barber45York CastleP/T murder of her husband, James
27/11/1821Ann Norris21NewgateRobbery in a brothel
(hanged with 2 men)
07/12/1821Margaret Tindell or Shuttleworth36MontroseP/T murder of her husband
1822 – 2
25/03/1822Hannah Halley31DerbyMurder of her bastard child
16/08/1822Rachel Edwards MonmouthP/T murder of her husband
1823 – 3
16/04/1823Mary McKinnon Edinburgh
(Lawn Market)		Murder of William Howat
18/04/1823Catherine Kinrade19Castle Rushton
(Isle of Man)		Accessory to murder
(hanged with male co defendant)
26/07/1823Grace Griffin BerwickP/T murder of her husband
1824 – 1 
16/08/24Ester Loughbridge CarrickfergusMurder of her sister in law
1825 – 2
11/03/1825Eleanor Ryan LimerickMurder of her husband
05/08/1825Hannah Read36LeicesterP/T murder of her husband
1826 – 2
16/01/1826Mary Caen44NewgateMurder of Maurice Fitzgerald
28/04/1826Joanna Lovett30TraleeMurder of her husband
1827 – 5
02/01/1827Amelia Roberts30NewgateStealing in a dwelling house  (hanged with 1 man)
26/03/1827Rachel Bradley27Lancaster CastleMurder of her infant child
11/04/1827Sarah Jones26MonmouthMurder of her bastard child
16/06/1827Margaret Wishart ForfarMurder of her sister
17/09/1827Mary Wittenback40NewgateMurder of her husband, Frederick
1828 – 6
17/03/1828Mary Magrath60DundalkMurder of Jane Kelly (infant)
22/03/1828Jane Scott22Lancaster CastleMurder of her parents
14/04/1828Catherine Welch24NewgateMurder of her unnamed son
08/08/1828Elizabeth Commins22BodminMurder of her male bastard
16/08/1828Ann Harris50ShrewsburyAccomplice to the murder of James Harrison
22/10/1828Isabella (Bell) McMenemy25GlasgowRobbery & assault (hanged with co defendant Thomas Connor)
1829 – 5
07/03/1829Jane Jameson30NewcastleMurder of her mother, Margaret
13/04/1829Esther Hibner61NewgateMurder – child
22/07/1829Ann Mary Chapman28NewgateAttempted murder of baby daughter (hanged with 6 men)
17/08/1829Kezia Westcombe32ExeterMurder of her husband Samuel (hanged with her lover Richard Quantance, age 35)
19/08/1829Catherine Wright (Stewart)28EdinburghMurder (hanged with her husband)
1830 – 7
22/03/1830Ellen Connell36Tralee (Ireland)Murder of her husband
25/03/1830Mary Kelly KilkennyMurder of her aunt
31/03/1830Jane Graham49CarrickfergusMurder of John Bell (child)
31/03/1830Mary Murphy50LimerickConspiracy to murder
13/08/1830Bridget Brennan TraleeMurder of her husband
24/08/1830Margaret Cleland22Downpatrick (Ireland)Murder of sister in law
08/10/1830Catherine Davidson (Humphries) AberdeenMurder of her husband
1831 – 5
18/03/1831Margaret Mackesay LimerickMurder
05/08/1831Agnes Clarke DownpatrickMurder of two lodgers (hanged with her husband Charles)
06/08/1831Judith Butler Clonmel (Ireland)Murder of William Whellan
(hanged with 2 male co-defendants)
11/08/1831Mary Ann Higgins19CoventryMurder of her uncle
06/10/1831Mary Steel (Bryce) GlasgowMurder & robbery (hanged with her husband James)
1832 – 4
09/01/1832Elizabeth Ross38NewgateMurder of Caroline Walsh
26/03/1832Mary Kellaway27ExeterMurder of her bastard child
26/03/1832Sarah Smith28LeicesterMurder of Elizabeth Wood
08/06/1832Margaret Gunning ClonmelConspiracy to murder James Short
1833 – 3
30/03/1833Mary Hunter47York CastleArson (hanged with 2 men)
19/08/1833Elizabeth Heaffy CorkMurder of Thomas Cummins and Francis Canning (hanged with 2 male co-defendants)
31/08/1833Charlotte Long33GloucesterArson (last female for arson)
(hanged with 1 man also for arson)
1834 – 3
17/02/1834Maria Canning DublinMurder of husband by poisoning (hanged with male co-defendant, Patrick Martin)
19/03/1834Mary Holden29Lancaster CastleMurder of her husband, Roger
19/03/1834Mary Smith24StaffordMurder of her bastard child
1835 – 6
30/03/1835Lucinda Sly56CarlowMurder of her husband, Walter
(hanged with male co-defendant)
06/04/1835Ursula Lofthouse26York CastleMurder of her husband
(hanged with 2 men)
15/04/1835Mary Ann Burdock30BristolMurder of Mrs. Smith
03/08/1835Elizabeth Banks54EdinburghMurder of her husband
10/08/1835Francis Billing & Catherine Frary40
46		Norwich CastlePoisoning murders of Mary Taylor and Robert Frary
1836 – 3
09/04/1836Harriet Tarver21GloucesterMurder of her husband Thomas
09/04/1836Betty Rowland46LiverpoolMurder of her husband, William
14/04/1836Sofia Edney23IlchesterMurder of her husband by poison
1837 – 1
07/08/1837Mary Cooney LimerickMurder of Anne Anderson
1838 -2
05/05/1838Ann Wycherly28StaffordMurder of her daughter, Ann
21/05/1838Elizabeth Jeffrey (aka Nicholson & Shafto)36GlasgowMurder of Ann Newall and
Hugh Monro
1839 – 0
1840 – 0
1841 – 1
01/05/1841Mary Anne McConkey MonaghanMurder of her husband
1842 – 0
1843 – 2
06/05/1843Betty Eccles38LiverpoolMurder of her stepson, hanged with Wilmot Buckley
05/08/1843Sarah Dazley24BedfordMurder of her husband
1844 – 5
13/01/1844Sarah Westwood42StaffordMurder of her husband, John
02/08/1844Eliza Joyce31Lincoln CastleMurder of her stepson
07/08/1844Catherine Bryan &
Bridget Lanigan		 RoscommonMurder of her husband Patrick,
(brother in law)
28/12/1844Mary Gallop20ChesterPatricide (murder of her father)
1845 – 2
11/01/1845Mary Sheming51IpswichMurder of her son, John
23/04/1845Sarah Freeman28TauntonMurder of her brother, Charles
1846 – 1
05/01/1846Martha Browning23NewgateMurder of Mrs. Mundell
1847 – 2
17/04/1847Catherine Foster18Bury St EdmundsMurder of her husband, John
30/07/1847Mary Ann Milner27Lincoln CastleMurder of her sister in law
   Milner hanged herself in her cell on the morning of execution but is included here as she would have been executed, there being no reprieve
1848 – 2
21/02/1848Harriet Parker33NewgateMurder of her 2 step children
14/08/1848Mary May38ChelmsfordMurder of her half brother
1849 – 7
21/03/1849Jane Scully RoscommonMurder of Isabella Brennan (hanged with male co-defendant and 1 other man).
20/04/1849Sarah Harriet Thomas17BristolMurder of Miss Jefferies (mistress)
09/08/1849Mary Ball31CoventryMurder of her husband
11/08/1849Catherine Dillon LimerickMurder of her husband Daniel
(hanged with male co-defendant)
21/08/1849Mary Ann Geering49LewesMurder of her husband and 2 sons
23/08/1849Rebecca Smith44DevizesMurder of her infant son
13/11/1849Maria Manning28Horsemonger LaneMurder of Patrick O’Connor
(hanged with her husband)
1850 – 4
31/01/1850Margaret Hamilton or Lennox25GlasgowMurder of sister in law, Jean
11/04/1850Catherine Moore Maryborough (now Portlaoise)Murder of her husband, Patrick
13/04/1850Mary Reeder20CambridgeMurder of sister, Susan Lucas (Elias’s wife) (hanged alongside Elias Lucas)
27/07/1850Bridget Keogh32Ennis (Ireland)Murder of Arthur O’Donnell
(hanged with male co-defendant)
1851 – 3
25/03/1851Sarah Chesham42ChelmsfordAttempted murder of husband (hanged with one man)
10/05/1851Catherine Connelly70CorkMurder of Mary Morris
19/08/1851Mary Cage40IpswichMurder of her husband, James
1852 – 2
16/03/1852Elizabeth Pinckard51NorthamptonMurder of her mother in law
10/04/1852Sarah Ann French27LewesMurder of her husband, William
1853 – 3
29/04/1853Bridget Stackpoole EnnisMurder of her nephew, James (hanged with husband Richard)
29/04/1853Honora Stackpoole EnnisAs above, hanged an hour later. (Last woman to be publicly hanged in Ireland)
11/08/1853Helen Blackwood30GlasgowMurder of Alexander Boyd. (hanged with male co-defendant.)
1854 – 1855 – 0
1856 – 1
09/08/1856Elizabeth Brown45DorchesterMurder of her husband, John
1857 – 1861 – 0
1862 – 2
29/04/1862Mary Ann Timney (Reid)27DumfriesMurder of her neighbour, Ann Hannah. (Last female public hanging in Scotland)
20/10/1862Catherine Wilson40NewgateMurder of Mrs. Soames
1863 – 1
28/12/1863Alice Holt (Hewitt)27ChesterMurder of her mother
1864 – 1865 – 0
1866 – 1
28/03/1866Mary Ann Ashford44ExeterMurder of her husband, William
1867 – 1
10/01/1867Ann Lawrence29MaidstoneMurder of her 4 year old son, Jeremiah (hanged with 1 man)
1868 – 1
02/04/1868Frances Kidder25MaidstoneMurder of her step-daughter, Louisa (12)

Note. Newgate was the main place of execution for London and the County of Middlesex up to 1902. Horsemonger Lane Gaol was the “hanging” prison for the County of Surrey up to 1878.

As you can see from the above, murder was by far the most common crime for which women were hanged in the 19th century, representing some 78.6% of the total number executed. 142 of these women suffered for this crime.  A further 20 were hanged for the murder of their bastard child.  This was sadly quite commonplace where young, usually poor, unmarried girls became pregnant and killed their baby.  It was defined as a separate crime from ordinary murder. Attempted murder was still a capital crime in Britain up to 1861. Three women were executed for this offence, the last being Sarah Chesham in 1851.  Three women were hanged, one for being an accessory to murder, one for conspiracy to murder and one for aiding and abetting murder.
Women convicted of murdering their husbands (at least 18 cases) and superiors (e.g., their employers) (1 or 2 cases) prior to 1828, were guilty of Petty Treason (denoted by P/T above) and were dragged to the gallows on a hurdle or sled before being hanged. Martha Aldin was who had murdered her husband received the following sentence that on “Friday next you will be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, there to be hanged by the neck till you are dead, and your body afterwards to be dissected.” The sentence was carried out in full on Friday, the 31st of July 1807, at 12 noon, before a huge crowd on Castle Hill, Norwich.  Dissection was a mandatory part of the punishment for all female murderers from 1752 to 1834.  In 1828 the crime of Petty Treason was abolished, the offence being reclassified as ordinary murder.

At the beginning of the 19th century the “Bloody Code”, as it was known, was still in force, mandating the death sentence for a large number of property crimes.  Six women were hanged for stealing or robbing in a dwelling house, one for robbing in a brothel, three for burglary, one for riot, one for killing sheep. 
Coining was deemed to be high treason and three women were executed for it in the 19th century, the last being Susan Grant in 1809. Coining was the practice of clipping off the edges of gold and silver coins and melting down the clippings either to form ingots or to forge other coins. Coining ceased to be a capital crime in 1832. Forgery (particularly of bank notes and coins) also carried the death penalty and led to six executions up to 1834. Uttering was the crime of passing forgeries – e.g. forged coins, bank notes or cheques and eight women were to die for this crime.
Charlotte Long became the last woman to be executed for a crime other than murder or attempted murder, when she was hanged with Thomas Gaskins at Gloucester in 1833 for arson, which was considered a very serious crime due to the destruction of property and the risk to life. It still carries the possibility of a “life sentence” today. She was one of five women to suffer for this crime between 1800 and 1833.

It was not until 1861 that the Criminal Law Consolidation Act reduced the number of capital crimes to four: murder, treason (including arson in Royal Naval dockyards), mutiny and piracy. No woman was to hang for any of these crimes other than murder.
Catherine Connelly was the oldest woman hanged, being 70 at the time, the youngest recorded was Hannah Bocking, who was only 16 and one of at least nine teenage girls to be executed during the 19th century. She was hanged for poisoning another girl, Jane Grant, at Wardlow Miers in Derbyshire. The execution of persons under 16 was not formally outlawed until the Children’s Act was passed in 1908.

For whatever reason the proportion of female murders and executions was much higher in the period 1837 to 1865.  Women accounted for 32 out of 318 executions during this period, or just over 10%, the highest ever proportion, despite the fact that a large number were reprieved.  There seemed to be a rash of poisonings by women at this time.

All of these women suffered in public, often before large crowds, hanged using the short drop method which meant that none of them had a pain free death and in many cases, it would be reported that they “died hard,” i.e. struggled for some time before unconsciousness supervened. Twenty two year old Ann Hurle’s execution in 1804 is described thus in the Newgate Calendar:
“She was brought out of the debtors’ door in Newgate at eight o’clock. The mode of execution by the drop having been for the time changed to that of the common gallows, she was put into a cart and drawn to the place of execution, in the widest part of the Old Bailey, where she expiated her offences in penitence and prayer. When the halter was fixed, she seemed inclined to speak, but her strength evidently failed, and she was incapable. Her appearance, upon the whole, excited emotions of compassion among the spectators, who at last became so clamorous that the sheriff, in a loud voice, described to them the impropriety of their behaviour, after which they were more silent. The cap was then pulled over the face of the sufferer and the cart drawn away. As it was going she gave a faint scream, and for two or three minutes after she was suspended she appeared to be in great agony, moving her hands up and down frequently”. (She was typically only pinioned by a rope around her arms and body at the elbows and her wrists tied together in front.)

In accordance with the Murder Act of 1752 murderers had to be hanged within 48 hours of sentence.  In reality this was often extended to 72 hours as it was usual to pass sentences on all prisoners convicted at the end of the assize on a Friday.  Sunday was legally a “dies non” and nobody could be executed on that day so the earliest a murderer could be hanged was on the following Monday.  This act was finally repealed in 1834.  After which it was normal for at least two weeks to elapse between sentence and execution and this was later extended to “three clear Sundays”.

After 1834, the bodies of all criminals executed were buried within the precincts of the prison in which they were last confined, in unmarked graves whose locations were recorded.  Prior to 1834 those executed for crimes other than murder could be claimed by relatives and friends for burial in consecrated land.

It was normal for men and women to be sentenced together at the end of a county assize or Old Bailey Sessions in London and those condemned and not reprieved would be hanged together. In the shire counties executions were often held on a market day (often a Saturday) so as to draw the biggest crowd.  In 1817, the famous prison reformer, Elizabeth Fry, recorded one of her visits to Newgate prison where she went to comfort a young woman called Eliza(beth) Fricker, aged about 30.  Eliza had been condemned for burglary. Fry found “also six men waiting to be hanged and seven young children.” One of the men was Elizabeth’s co-defendant who had also been sentenced for burglary, two for robbery and three for forgery, all capital felonies. Mrs. Fry protested at the severity of Eliza’s sentence and was attacked for being a sentimentalist by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Eldon, who stated that “if hanging was abolished for theft, the property of Englishmen would be left wholly without protection.” Eliza was duly hanged outside Newgate on Wednesday, the 5th of March 1817, together with the six men, the children being reprieved.

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