Posted on 09/17/2023 7:44:36 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1801, Jason Fairbanks was hanged for murder in Massachusetts.
Fairbanks hailed from one of the oldest families in Anglo North America; the house where he whiled away his pre-homicide idleness is today the Dedham museum Fairbanks House.
“A youth of about twenty-one, weak, sickly, with a stiff right arm,” Jason had a thing for 18-year-old “neighbor” (they lived more than a mile apart) Elizabeth Fales and she for him, but the Fales family opposed the romance.
So one day in May 1801, Fairbanks “told two of his friends, that he should meet [Fales] in the pasture on Monday, and endeavour to induce her to go off with him, and marry him; and that if she refused to do so he would attempt her chastity.”....
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An Arkancide all the way over in France, who knew?!
Poor woman, no real love lost there, just lust.
From there, I ended up reading about the last guillotine execution in France and about the experiments to determine how long a head was still alive after departing from its previous host. Time to go watch something more uplifting!
I think history is fascinating. Thanks for posting this.
There is a difference between "history" and "two-hundred-year-old gossip."
Regards,
Was Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks (1905-1909) a relative?
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