04/24/09 11:38:48PM @geoff-brookes:
That is the thing about history. People stay the same it is just that today we wear differnt clothes and we have lots of electronic buttons to press. But underneath all that we are the same as we have always been, with the same needs, the same desires, and the same problems
04/24/09 11:30:15PM @geoff-brookes:
Poor Mary upset the judge. Normally they would commute the death sentence for infanticide but on this occasion he went through with the death sentence because, they say, Mary wore flowers in her hair. And whilst they might have regarded infanticide as a commplication of pregnancy, the judge took objection to her attitude. Execution would clearly teach her a lesson. The girl was ill.
04/24/09 08:34:27PM @geoff-brookes:
This grave is in Presteigne and it tells the disturbing tale of 17 year old Mary Morgan who was hanged for killing her own baby. The full story is in my book "Stories in Welsh Stone."
That is the thing about history. People stay the same it is just that today we wear differnt clothes and we have lots of electronic buttons to press. But underneath all that we are the same as we have always been, with the same needs, the same desires, and the same problems
Poor Mary upset the judge. Normally they would commute the death sentence for infanticide but on this occasion he went through with the death sentence because, they say, Mary wore flowers in her hair. And whilst they might have regarded infanticide as a commplication of pregnancy, the judge took objection to her attitude. Execution would clearly teach her a lesson. The girl was ill.
This grave is in Presteigne and it tells the disturbing tale of 17 year old Mary Morgan who was hanged for killing her own baby. The full story is in my book "Stories in Welsh Stone."