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Hanged at Birmingham (Paperback, Uk Ed.)
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Hanged at Birmingham (Paperback, Uk Ed.)
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For decades the high walls of Birmingham's Winson Green Gaol have
contained some of the country's most infamous criminals. Until
hanging was abolished in the 1960s it was also the main centre of
execution for convicted killers from all parts of the Midlands. The
history of execution at Winson Green Gaol began in 1885 with the
execution of Henry Kimberley, who had shot dead a woman in a
Birmingham public house. Over the next seventy-five years many
notorious killers took the short walk to the gallows here. They
include the poisoner 'nurse' Dorothea Waddingham, IRA terrorists
Peter Barnes and James Richards, and child-killer Horace Carter.
Winson Green also saw the execution of Stanley Hobday, the West
Bromwich murderer apprehended following a pioneering nationwide
appeal on the BBC wireless; former police officer James Power, who
committed a brutal murder in the shadow of the prison walls;
ruthless Staffordshire killer Leslie Green, who battered to death
his former employer, and Ernie Harding, who, in 1955, became the
last man hanged for child murder. Steve Fielding's highly readable
new book features each of the forty cases in one volume for the
first time and is fully illustrated with rare photographs,
documents, news cuttings and engravings.
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