The Bermondsey Horror
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The Execution of Horsemonger Lane
Frederick died immediately when he was hanged. Marie strangled for a while before dying. Both were hanged on the roof of horse ger lane jail. Weirdly, herman, melville, was in the crowd during this. He later wrote in his journal about ithe wrote, qte, the man and wife were hung side by side, still unreconciled to each other. What a change from the time they stood after being married together. I believe that a sight so inconceivably awful as the wickedness and levity of the mense crowd collected at that execution could be presented in no heathen land under the sun. And i stand astounded and appalled by the
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