On this date in 1774, Peter Galwin and John Taylor were hanged together in Burlington in New Jersey. Galwin was the principal of a small school in Northampton Township with a hankering for prepubescent children. According to court documents, Galwin raped or attempted to rape four young girls on four separate occasions in July and August 1774: Ann Prosser, Hope Reeves, Sarah Deacon and Ann Jones, all of them “infants under the age of ten years.” The assault caused “great damage” to Ann Jones in particular. Whether or not the victims were his students is not known. The crimes of...