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    1. [SXP] Execution of LANGRIDGE , ABRAHAMS , SOLOMON & CRUTTENDEN ( 1819 )
    2. >From The Morning Post ( London, England ), Tuesday, August 10, 1819; Issue 15150. KENT ASSIZES. Of the 79 prisoners on the calendar, 18 were capitally convicted, and five following left for execution, viz:- Henry LANGRIDGE , 35, for the murder of Mr. SAXE , of Penshurst, about six years ago; Abraham ABRAHAMS , 24, Judah SOLOMON , 36, and Joseph SOLOMON , for being accessaries in planning a burglary and felony, at Minster, Isle of Sheppy, of which three men were convicted at the last Maidstone Assizes; and John CRUTTENDEN , aged 33 ( indicted on the Black Act ) for felonio usly and maliciously cutting a number of hop binds, growing on poles, in a plantation belonging to Mr. Samuel SANTER , of Benenden. This, we believe, is the first capital conviction that ever followed an offence of this kind.

    08/20/2011 11:57:10