By Norman Adams
ISBN-10: 1845026225
ISBN-13: 9781845026226
Hangman's Brae is a vividly written account of the blood-curdling crimes and brutal varieties of punishment of north-east Scotland. The e-book explores the area's underworld and contours the grave-robbers, jail-breakers, rioters and different lawbreakers whose crimes led them to untimely deaths on the finish of a rope or on the now not so gentle palms of The Maiden, a ugly decapitating equipment pre-dating the French guillotine.
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He also received additional payments of 6s 8d for erecting and taking down the scaffold and 2s 8d for a quart of ale to quench his thirst. It is worth noting that the machine is referred to as female more than a decade before a similar reference to its gender in the Edinburgh records. It was unlikely to be linked to the Iron Maiden of Nuremberg, which resembled an Egyptian mummy lined with iron spikes. There might have been some religious significance in this – an effigy called The Maiden was used in festive processions in pre-Reformation Scotland.
And stones, causing him injury and his employer extreme embarrassment. The new executioner was John Justice and he was made of sterner stuff than his predecessors because he was still in office the following year when he played a bloody role in the execution of more than a score of witches in Aberdeen. His name was probably a pseudonym and he may have worn a mask when carrying out his grim work. Justice occupied ‘the little hous under the tolbuyth stair’. It would appear his dwelling was in a state of disrepair for the council agreed to mend the door and provide a new lock.
A petition for clemency and doubts about her guilt led to a brief respite. After the execution was postponed, Johnny was paid £2 expenses and escorted as far as St Cyrus on the road back to Aberdeen. He returned to finish the job and was paid the balance due to him. While in Montrose, people were anxious to meet him for the town had no resident executioner. It was noted that ‘many persons waited on him at his lodgings; and if his visitors were not as fashionably dressed, his levee was nearly as numerously attended as if he had been Prime Minister’.