Hangman William Marvell was convicted of theft, two of his sons were hanged and a third son was transported to the colonies.
German executioner Friedrich made a considerable sum with his sideline of making counterfeit coins. He was caught and burned alive.
Another German executioner plotted against the authorities and for his pains suffered beheading at the hands of his own assistant.
English executioner John Thrift was so soft-hearted that he cried as he wielded the axe whilst decapitating Scottish Lords. This can hardly have improved his aim!
Henri-Clement Sanson lost his job when on being summoned to carry out an execution it was found that he had got into debt and had pawned the guillotine.
Charles-Henri Sanson had once been a lover of Mme Du Barry - a lover in the truest sense of the word. During the French Revolution he had to restrain her frantic struggles on the scaffold and then behead her.
Gabriel Sanson neglected to look where he was putting his feet, slipped on the blood-soaked boards of the guillotine scaffold, fell off the platform and broke his neck!
Taken from William Calcraft - Executioner Extra-Ordinaire by Geoffrey Abbot.
12 comments:
Like the pic Jeannette ;o)
Sara x
WOW! what some horrible goinons. Helen
Love the graphic. Good bit of Sunday reading this.
Sylvia x
I just laughed out loud at most of these. Fancy pawning the guillotine, the mind boggles at the thought that someone would want to buy it from the pawnshop! I bet there were some relieved condemned people there! Do you have anymore of these ? The graphic is great too. :-) Sandra xxx
LOL - actually, I can believe a lot of those!
David.
I think I like the one about the guillotine being pawned best!
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Love the cartoons! Sorry for not dropping by soon. We just moved and I have a lot of unpacking to do. Happy Mother's Day, J!
gory stuff, but i love it.....thought u were giving this stuff up. im glad you did not. xxx roberta
Interesting spin on "live by the sword, die by the sword" eh?
Laughed at the cartoon! Keep up the good work,you are so entertaining to read Jeannette.
Cute graphic. Loved these tales, can't imagine pawing a guillotine...or seeing one in a pawn shop! Lol! ~Deborah
Well this was a hoot for my first read for a bit here. Seems as though a few of those blokes got a big head about themselves eh? Not for long though. Nice to be back.
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