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Ireland 1849, Sidney Osborne | The gallows in Ireland were familiar and ever present features in front of every jailhouse
Ireland 1849, Sidney Osborne | The gallows in Ireland were familiar and ever present features in front of every jailhouse Ireland 1849, Sidney Osborne | The gallows in Ireland were familiar and ever present features in front of every jailhouse - no higher from the ground than an ordinary second-floor. Unlike England, they were in Ireland permanent fixtures - balconies with their fallen floors still hanging down from the last execution for all Irish Catholics to see and contemplate. About 10 feet above each trapdoor was a horizontal iron beam from the end of which hung a large iron cast of a skull.” The law did not distinguish between adults and children, and ‘strong evidence of malice in a child of 7 to 14 years of age’ was also a hanging matter. Taken from The Truth Behind The Irish Famine. 72 paintings, 472 eyewitness quotes. Signed copies at Vwegba Blogging World, bring you serial killer story, serial killers facts, murder, true crime, true crimecommunity, horror, truecrim