Executed. Today. com » 1. November 7th, 2. 01. Headsman. Three Sierra Leone natives whose November 7, 1. European powers at the Berlin Conference of 1. Deal table in the middle, plain chairs all round the walls, on one end a large shining map, marked with all the colors of a rainbow. There was a vast amount of red — good to see at any time, because one knows that some real work is done in there, a deuce of a lot of blue, a little green, smears of orange, and, on the East Coast, a purple patch, to show where the jolly pioneers of progress drink the jolly lager- beer.” - Joseph Conrad. This summit aimed to regularize the so- called “scramble for Africa” among rival European empires by setting forth some rules about who got to plant what flags where. One of those rules was known as the Principle of Effective Occupation: as the name suggests, the Principle was that a colonial power actually had to be in something like control of the territory it proposed to call its own. The Berlin Conference kicked off a generation of frenetic jockeying and conquest that carved up the continent. Further to Effective Occupation, the British expanded their longstanding coastal presence at Freetown by, in 1. Protectorate of Sierra Leone. All that Protectorating didn’t come cheap. Who better to pay for it than the Protectorated? Britain’s proconsul accordingly dropped a Hut Tax on his subjects — a ruinously steep one that stoked an 1. Hut Tax War. The brief but bloody war (actually an amalgamation of two distinct rebellions, north and south) cost hundreds of lives on each side, not sparing civilians. British colonial agent Thomas Joshua Alldridge, who authored several studies of the colony and its inhabitants, was part of the July expedition raiding a town called Bambaia on Sherbro Island. I had already sent to the chief of this town, giving him an ultimatum — that if he would not by a certain day, come up and tender his unconditional submission, a punitive expedition would be the result. He was a notoriously bad character and did some terrible things, for which he was afterwards tried and hanged. The disregarding of the ultimatum caused the present expedition. I was informed that when we arrived at the waterside he had cleared out with the people before we could get into the town. Presently a few people returned, and it was evident that he was in hiding near; but to attempt to hunt for men in the African bush is a waste of time, the bush being their natural stronghold. I sent messages by the people, and had it loudly called out that if he would return to the town by 4 o’clock that I would not destroy the place, but that if he did not appear before me by that time it would be burnt. As he did not do so and I could get no information whatever, the straggling and outlying parts of the town were fired, and in the morning the town itself was destroyed. Hangings like the one Alldridge references here for the chief of Bambaia were meted out in great number to rebel leadership, some 9. Alldridge knew the country in peacetime and not just in war, and would eventually publish several studies of the country from his observations. He’s the rightmost of the two seated men, wearing a black top hat; beside him sits a counselor described by Alldridge as the Imperri Prime Minister (Lavari). The quality of this image isn’t the best; it’s just taken from a Google images scan of Alldridge’s public domain book A Transformed Colony: Sierra Leone, as it Was, and as it Is. The Treacherous Spring Board (1898) Quotes on IMDb: Memorable quotes and exchanges from movies, TV series and more. The Treacherous Spring Board. Alldridge notes that both the Sokong and the Lavari later “suffered the full penalty of the law” for the rebellion. That would presumably make those two leaders also part of this portrait, taken just four months before the rebellion’s outbreak at a meeting of Imperri chiefs in that town of Bambaia which Alldridge would later put to the torch: This latter photo is online in a number of locations with the same descriptive caption: Identified beneath the print are the Sokong, the Prime Minister and . Perhaps there is a reader who can identify the Sokong and Lavari from the first picture in the second? On this day. Entry Filed under: 1. Century,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,England,Execution,Guerrillas,Hanged,History,Occupation and Colonialism,Politicians,Sierra Leone,Soldiers,Wartime Executions. Tags: 1. 89. 0s, 1. Add comment. January 3rd, 2. Headsman. On this date in 1. Alaskan miner’s court . The Library of Congress > Chronicling America > The sun. My American Experience Share Your Story. Who is your favorite 20th-century American president? Or one of the other 14 men who helped. The Library of Congress > Chronicling America > The times. Their horrors are unspeakable. Lecherous, treacherous. After all, there had been gold finds in Alaska before. The putative reasons justifying the spread of the Klondike fever to Copper River were some combination of these: That the Copper River promised a shortcut into the Klondike easier than the route over Canadian soil; That the Copper River itself had gold — and that it could be prospected under less extreme climate, and exempt from 2. Canada imposed on Klondike gold. Passenger steamers, whose operators were later suspected of flogging interest in this route as the “All- American trail,” brought several thousand bonanza- seekers from west coast cities to the tent- city port of Valdez, Alaska. From there, miners could tromp over a treacherous mountain- and- glacier path to the unspeakable riches of the Copper River.“It was one of the greatest hoaxes in Alaska’s history,” write Jim and Nancy Lethcoe. By the summer of 1. Copper River country back for Valdez. Jackson (Mich.) Daily Citizen. The occasion was the empty- handed return of one of that city’s native sons, A. A. Jankowsky, from the Alaskan interior. Last spring there was a perfect exodus to the Copper river.”Boston Journal, Jan. The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 18.Baltimore Sun, Sept. Jankowsky, like many others, survived the treacherous journey into the interior only to find the Copper River region entirely destitute of gold. After supporting himself for a bit running a canteen, he joined a veritable stampede of thousands of duped prospectors fleeing back from the interior to Valdez. By his telling to the Citizen, “All along the trail were seen immense stores of provisions, representing in many instances, the savings of many years of prospectors, which were abandoned. Some of these contained cards marked, . Each had “grub- staked” $2. When the leaders of the expedition refused to provide him an itemized account, Tanner turned into the cantankerous black sheep of the party as they drug their undersized packs over the dangerous Valdez glacier. Matters came to such a pass that as dark fell on January 2, several of the other prospectors met in a tent to discuss turning Tanner out of the party full stop. Overhearing them, the enraged Tanner burst into the tent with the cool action hero words, “I’m here for business now,” then started firing. He killed two of the men; a third only owed his life to a lamp’s timely extinguishing during the affray. Though cold comfort to men shot in their tents, hanged by miners, or fallen into glacial crevasses, that route eventually became part of the present- day Richardson Highway, and the Trans- Alaska Pipeline. On this day. Entry Filed under: 1. Century,Alaska,Borderline . Executed Today readers are sure to enjoy Wilhelm’s detailed investigations into long- lost historic crime. Williams was arrested for the murder of John Gallo, his conviction seemed highly unlikely. There appeared to be no direct link between Williams and Gallo. There was no absolute proof that Gallo had been murdered, or even that he was dead. But in this case, circumstantial evidence, rather than increasing doubt, actually succeeded in dispelling doubt, bringing investigators closer to the truth and drawing the noose ever tighter around Alfred Williams’s neck. John Gallo was a young Italian immigrant who worked on a farm in Lynnfield, Massachusetts. He was industrious and popular with the other workers, but kept to himself and very seldom left the farm. Gallo lived alone in a small shack in the rear of the farm. In the early hours of July 2. The shack was leveled, leaving nothing but ashes and the charred remains of a body, so badly burned that it could not be identified. The body was so charred that it took two examinations to verify that it was, in fact, the body of a human. The head and neck were gone, both arms and both legs had been completely consumed, bone and all, by the fire. The spinal column remained with some back muscle attached; the heart, liver, kidneys, and bladders remained, but were badly burned. Everything else was completely gone. The medical examiner could state that the body was that of an adult human being, but nothing more. With the destruction so complete, it appeared to investigators that nothing could be learned to explain what had happened that night. But as the investigation progressed, details began to emerge, like an image developing on a photographic plate. The fact that there was too little information became a clue in itself, and soon investigators were able to compile a list of facts that pointed to foul play: The body had been destroyed to a greater extent than would be expected from a fire in such a small building. The bedsprings had survived the blaze but the body was found several feet away. Some buckles, metal buttons, a few coins and the clasp of a pocketbook were found by the side of the bedsprings, none were found near the body. His body was doused with kerosene and ignited, which would account for the severe damage to the body. The flame then quickly spread to the rest of the house. John Gallo had earned $1. Phillips’s farm and was paid monthly, always in five dollar bills. He spent very little and at the time of his death, it was suspected that he had around one hundred dollars earned on the farm. It was also well known that Gallo always carried three twenty dollar gold pieces that he had earned on a construction job prior to coming to the farm. No trace of the gold pieces or any melted gold were found. Another crime had allegedly been committed near Lynnfield in the early morning of July 2. That afternoon, Alfred C. Williams reported that he had been held up near his rooming house in Wakefield. He had been unable to sleep and went outside to smoke a cigar.
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