At least in 1864 people wanting to watch a hanging had to take the trouble to travel to the place where it was held. No live streaming then.
(Image is from Gloucestershire Chronicle, 27 August 1864, via British Newspaper Archive.)
Jill Evans
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I research and write about the history of crime and punishment in Gloucestershire, England. Author of 5 local history books. Website: www.gloscrimehistory.uk. E-mail jevans.gloscrime@btinternet.com
![THE CONDEMNED PRISONER LEWIS GOUGH.
After having spared a similar disgrace for more than a quarter of a century, Gloucester is this (Saturday) morning to be the scene of a public execution. On the 20th April, 1839, William Davis was led pinioned to the scaffold over the lodge at the County Prison, and there met his death; he had murdered a man at Durdham Down, in order that he might possess himself of his victim's watch. Two years before that Charles Samuel Bartlett died on the same scaffold for the murder of a relative. And looking back at the records of a few...[rest of article not copied]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aswu6qrhzc3xzujqm33q24dd/bafkreibmfmbqfbtwynx424txrdi3ake25rmwofhhtrmwmh4zuihx4sdo6m)
![[In our report last week, the names of three policemen named Thomas Trigg, Robert Green, and Daniel Browning, were inserted instead of the names of three persons convicted of intoxication.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aswu6qrhzc3xzujqm33q24dd/bafkreidpzctgipcezfzktta6u5zrtpqqqgfwbugqrnk3dunxqypqifsdpq)
![Walter Williams, of Eastgate-street, and Arthur Thomas Gardner, two small boys, were charged with stealing six bamboo canes, of the value of 3d, "the property of Samuel Bland." - Park-constable Grabham (a very appropriate name for an officer of the law) said he saw the prisoners pull the canes through the railings in front of Wells Dene. When they caught sight...[continues]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aswu6qrhzc3xzujqm33q24dd/bafkreic3nersxwaasm32v5wk5kmyogyjcx2mr7xaxigetmiebezcvojd4a)
