{"id":2591,"date":"2016-10-05T10:41:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T09:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/?page_id=2591"},"modified":"2017-09-04T12:08:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T11:08:51","slug":"public-executions-at-launceston","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/the-place\/launceston-police\/public-executions-at-launceston\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Executions at Launceston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1577<br \/>\n? Abbott, Julian Gliddon, William Kylter, William Pearce, Hugh Wooger, 1577<br \/>\nALL PUBLICLY HANGED AT LAUNCESTON<br \/>\nNovember 29th 1577 Cuthbert Maine Charged with preferring the Catholic Faith Hung, drawn and quartered in Launceston Market Place. His head being set up on the Castle of Launceston, and his quarters distributed between Bodmin, Barnstaple, Tregonyas and Wadebridge as an example!<\/p>\n<p>1720 circa Male * ROSEVEAR. Riot and theft at Parr<br \/>\nHanged at Launceston. The History of Cornwall Hitchins and Drew. 1824 p72. We are told that he was hanged at Launceston for his part in a Tinners Riot at Par demanding grain from a store house waiting to be shipped. At the time he was a constable. He was publicly hanged and his body taken to St Austell Downs where he was suspended on the Gibbet to \u201cblacken in the sun and furnish meat for birds of prey.\u201d<br \/>\n1735 Weds.6th August 1735 Henry Rogers Murder of William Carpenter<br \/>\nAlso John Sheel Murder of William Carpenter<br \/>\nPUBLICLY HANGED AT LAUNCESTON (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/the-place\/churches-and-chapels-of-launceston\/st-stephens-church-and-parish\/\">St. Stephens<\/a>)<\/em><br \/>\nMonday 5th October 1767 William Pearse Stole from a wreck.<br \/>\nPUBLICLY HANGED AT LAUNCESTON (<em>St. Stephens<\/em>)<br \/>\n1771 Monday 1st April 1771 Catherine Burgess Murder of her female illegitimate child<br \/>\nPUBLICLY HANGED AT LAUNCESTON (<em>St. Stephens<\/em>)<br \/>\nFriday 9th August 1771 Ann Chapman Murder of her female illegitimate child<br \/>\nPUBLICLY HANGED AT LAUNCESTON<br \/>\nFriday 29th March 1776 Mary Penylegon Murder of a male illegitimate child<br \/>\nPUBLICLY HANGED AT LAUNCESTON (<em>St. Stephens<\/em>)<br \/>\nThursday March 28th 1793 William Trevarvas (<em>Trewarris<\/em>) 25 Murder of Martha Blewitt<br \/>\nPUBLICLY HANGED AT BODMIN<\/p>\n<p><em>The burglary at the Launceston Post Office in 1805, caused a great local sensation, and much credit was given to the three borough constables (by the names of Atkins, Short, and Watts) for, according to the saying of the time, having found the culprits out \u2018like Narraway (or Norway) rats.\u2019 The two men, John Williams and James Joyce, were found guilty at Launceston assizes and were sentenced to death. <\/em><br \/>\n<em>This is where local folklore takes over as its stated that the men were taken in an open cart, rope around their necks, from the Castle gaol to Gallow\u2019s Hill on St. Stephens Down, followed by a large crowd, and that on their way to execution the landlady whose house they had frequented got up into the cart and kissed them; but as Sir Alfred Robbins points out in his book \u2018Launceston Past and Present,\u2019 one is bound to accept the legend with caution in the absence of proof that this transport to St. Stephens was ever portion of a Launceston execution. Also records show that the incident was actually committed in 1793 some 12 years to that in the newspaper. There is also a listing that the two men, John Williams and James Joyce, were publicly hanged at Bodmin for breaking into the shop of Ms Tyeth, on Wednesday 17th April 1805. Given the distance from the county gaol on the Castle Green it is hard to give reason why the condemned felon would be conveyed to St. Stephens for execution, but that the name Gallows Hill exists does preclude that they did occur at this place, \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1810 Unknown Lawrence Roach Murder Launceston?<br \/>\nThursday March 1814 William Burns Barnes?21 The murder of John Allen of Sennen<br \/>\nPUBLICLY HANGED AT LAUNCESTON<br \/>\nFriday 31st March 1815 John Simms Murder of Joseph Burnett<br \/>\nPUBLICLY HANGED AT LAUNCESTON<br \/>\nThursday 20th August William Rowe Junior from Stokeclimsland 41 Sheep stealing<br \/>\nPUBLICLY HANGED AT LAUNCESTON<br \/>\nMonday 2nd April 1821 John Barnicott Earnicott, 24, and John Thompson, 17, Murder of William Hancock at Cury<br \/>\nPUBLICLY HANGED AT Launceston; Thomson and Barnicott were hanged in the Castle Green Launceston for the murder of a farmer near Probus, the scaffold being erected on a slight mound in the centre of the Green, known from this circumstance as Gallows Hill until it was levelled some twenty years since.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jackiefreemanphotography.com\/bodmin_executions.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bodmin Executions Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Visits: 178<\/p><!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2591\" data-postid=\"2591\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2591 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. 1577 ? Abbott, Julian Gliddon, William Kylter, William Pearce, Hugh Wooger, 1577 ALL PUBLICLY HANGED AT LAUNCESTON November 29th 1577 Cuthbert Maine Charged with preferring the Catholic Faith Hung, drawn and quartered in Launceston Market Place. His head being set up on the Castle of Launceston, and his quarters distributed between Bodmin, Barnstaple, Tregonyas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2563,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2591","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2594,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2591\/revisions\/2594"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}