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  • Dr Price and Robert Anderson, a friend who was reputedly hangman for Carmarthenshire. It was he who lit the pyre at Dr Price's cremation in 1893.
Dr William Price and Robert Anderson, 1892
  • This 'Visitors Book' lists the names of individuals who visited prisoners at Beaumaris Gaol between 1862 and 1878. The following pages show the names of those individuals who were allowed to visit Richard Rowlands, a prisoner who had been found guilty of the murder of his father-in-law at Llanfaethlu. Rowlands was sentenced to death and his public execution in April 1862 was the second and the last to be carried out at the new Gaol at Beaumaris. In the few days before he was hanged, Rowlands was allowed a number of visitors, including his close relatives and several ministers of religion who came to pray with him.
Beaumaris Gaol Visitors Book, 1862-78 [front cover, image 1 of 3]
  • This ballad relates the story of William Murphy who was the last man to be executed at Caernarfon Gaol on 15 February 1910. Murphy was executed for the brutal murder of Gwen Ellen Jones at Holyhead on Christmas Day 1909. He was sentenced to death at the Beaumaris Assizes on 25 January 1910.
Ballad entitled 'Execution of Murphy', 1910 [image 1 of 4]
  • The two women were later pardoned and their sentence reduced to a year's imprisonment.
Elizabeth and Jane Baines were convicted of forging this two pound bank note and were sentenced to death, 1818 [front]
  • In this letter, the mayor of Carmarthen is told that Mr John Lees, an Inspector of Bank notes at the Bank of England, is being sent to Carmarthen to assist the investigation in the case against Elizabeth and Jane Baines. Transcription: London 13th Dec. 1817 Sir The Government of the Bank of England has desired us to acknowledge the Rect. of your Letter of the 11th inst. & to thank you for your prompt attention to the subject to which it refers. We have given directions to W. John Lees, one of the Inspectors of Bank Notes at the Bank of England, to set out immediately for Carmarthen to assist in the investigation of the Case, & in collecting thee requisite evidence to bring the offenders to Justice. Mr. Lees has had great experience in ___ of this kind, and we have given him full instructions, so that you will find him a very useful assistant & you will please to deliver to him the forged Bank Notes ___ the Paper blotter things found upon the Prisoners or in their house.
Letter sent on behalf of the Governor of the Bank of England to the Mayor of Carmarthen regarding the Baines forgery case, 13 December 1817 [image 1 of 3]
  • On 17 February 1903, William Hughes, a Wrexham miner originally from Denbigh, was found guilty of shooting his wife and was hanged at Ruthin prison. The condemned cell shows William Hughes waiting to be led to his execution. On the day of the execution the scaffold would have only been around 15 yards away from the cell. The cell also had a hole knocked through the outer wall which led to the 2nd storey of the gallows ensuring that the prisoner only had to walk a few final steps. It was reported that the last thing Hughes did before he left his cell was look at a photograph of his family. As far as is known William Hughes was the only person to be hanged at Ruthin Gaol.
Condemned Cell at Ruthin Gaol, Denbighshire