4150 x 4149 px | 35,1 x 35,1 cm | 13,8 x 13,8 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
febbraio 2008
Ubicazione:
Gibbet Hill, Hindhead common, Surrey, England, UK.
Altre informazioni:
Marking the spot of a murder of a sailor travelling along the Portsmouth to London road through what was then a wild and remote area. The three assailants had befriended the victim in a local inn; then robbed and killed him at this spot. Such was the public outcry at this cold blooded act on a sailor trying to return to his ship at Portsmouth that a memorial stone; which became known as the Sailor s Stone was erected on the site of the murder in the same year. The three were convicted and hanged the same day on a gibbet nearby; hence gibbet hill. Reputedly the bodies of the three murderers were left hanging in chains by the old road; only removed once they had completely disintegrated. The inscription on the stone reads: Erected; In deteftation of a barbarous Murder; Committed here on an unknown Sailor; On Sep. 24th 1786; By Edwd. Lonegon; Mick Cagy & Jas. Marshall; Who were all taken the fame day; And hung in Champs near this place. Whofe theddeth Man s Blood by man thall his; Blood be thed. Gen: Chap 9: Ver 6
