: HANGED TODAY IN HISTORY (March 22): On March 22, 1819, 16-year-old Hannah Bocking was scragged for baking an arsenic-laced spice cake and giving it to a friend, with whom she was angry because she (the friend) had been given a job that Hannah had been rejected for. More details: https://www.executedtoday.com/2014/03/22/1819-hannah-bocking-16-year-old-poisoner/ Links to our runners-up: Thomas Hilliker, framed for arson: https://www.executedtoday.com/2010/03/22/1803-thomas-hilliker-machine-wrecking/ and Richard Overfield, loathsome baby-killer: https://www.executedtoday.com/2016/03/22/1824-richard-overfield-wicked-stepfather/ 08:40: SWEENEY TODD, THE BARBER OF FLEET-STREET, Chapter 92,93,94: Back at Todd’s place, Todd busies himself stuffing comestibles into various corners of his house, so that he will be able to set it nicely on fire when the time comes. Then he hears a thump at the door. It’s a man, hired by Mrs. Lovett to keep an eye on him and make sure he doesn’t bolt the moon. Todd drags him inside, assures him all is right, offers him a drink… Meanwhile, Mr. Lupin carries off his big malicious reveal that Johanna is in boy’s togs, apparently for purposes of running away to sea, but it doesn’t turn out quite the way he’d hoped it would!45:25: HORRID BROADSIDE: Trial, sentence, confession, execution and a gallows ballad supposedly written by F.C. Courvoisier, a Swiss valet convicted of trying to murder his way out of a sticky situation after his boss, Lord William Russell, caught him stealing from him. (1840).GLOSSARY OF EARLY-VICTORIAN SLANG USED IN THIS EPISODE:COUNT-CARDS: Good companions. DIMBER DAMBERS: High-ranking members of the Flash-talking criminal underworld or of “Gypsy” families. KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows wandering amok in meadows and ditches, trying to stagger home.