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Hereford, March 25. This day Will Summers and Tipping were executed here for house-breaking. At the tree, the hangman was intoxicated with liquor, and supposing that there were three for execution, was going to put one of the ropes round the parson's neck, as he stood in the cart, and was with much difficulty prevented by the gaoler from so doing.
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little regard was paid for human life. People were executed for slight offences. The painful story related by Charles Dickens, in the preface to
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Barnaby Rudge,