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Author_Stephen Wade
capital crimes
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coiner
coiners
crime
crime & punishment
crime and punishment
crimes
criminal
criminals
dark history
death sentence
dick turpin
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execution
executioner
executioners
executions
forger
forgers
gruesome
highwayman
highwaymen
horse-stealing
murder
murderer
murderers
murders
penal history
real crime
true crime
Yorkshire
|capital punishment
Product details
- ISBN 9780750950428
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 172 x 248mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jul 2008
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Features stories of criminals hanged at York from the middle of the eighteenth century to the late nineteenth century. The condemned featured in this work range from coiners and forgers to murderers, thieves and highwaymen, the most infamous being Dick Turpin, who was hanged on York's Knavesmire in 1739 for horse-stealing.
STEPHEN WADE is a crime historian with a special interest in regional murder cases. He is the author of Lincolnshire Murders and Square Mile Bobbies (due out in 2008). He lives in Scunthorpe, north Lincolnshire.
