Oh, come on, people –
Posted by gigantichound on 27 Sep 2007 at 04:18 pm | Tagged as: Media, Toronto
Starting with the execution of John Boyd in January 1908, [[hanging]]s at the Don took place in an indoor chamber, which was a converted washroom, at the northeast corner of the old building. Previously, condemned men had been hanged on an outdoor scaffold in the jail yard.
1908
John Boyd is the first prisoner hanged in a new indoor chamber, converted from a washroom. Until then, hangings were done on an outdoor scaffold in the prison yard.
But where are they supposed to source their stories until your comprehensive history of hanging in Ontario comes out?
Poor Mr. Wuzzle – he’ll end up doing a show&tell in Grade 1 or so on Daddy’s book, and appall everybody.
Radclive needs a biography – it might happen, one of these days. Then again, I have a lot of books that shouldn’t ever have been developed out of the Sunday features they started as – they were worth a couple of thousand words, and that’s it.
A book of couple-thousand-word biographies like that would be really cool, although an insane amount of work.