John Ducker: The last man publicly hanged in Suffolk

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ย. 2021
  • A short video this week telling of the last man to meet his end on the scaffold publicly in Suffolk.
    Sources
    www.suffolkarchives.co.uk/times/crime-and-punishment/john-ducker-the-last-man-hanged-publicly-in-suffolk/
    www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-20298435
    halesworthmuseum.org.uk/wpress...
    halesworthmuseum.org.uk/wpress...
    www.halesworth.net/history/trail/chedistonstreet.php
    groups/ipswichremembers/posts/1880932758837715/
    www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2232384/PC-Ebenezer-Tye-Suffolk-police-recreate-fading-Victorian-photo-tribute-young-officer-murdered.html
    www.britishexecutions.co.uk/execution-content.php?key=1049&termRef=John%20Ducker
    expressdigest.com/death-on-th...
    www.suffolklive.com/news/history/last-person-publicly-hanged-suffolk-5720823
    www.eadt.co.uk/news/2019-halesworth-ink-festival-play-reasonable-doubt-2559220
    Pictures
    halesworthtowncouncil.org.uk/...
    money.howstuffworks.com/perso...
    artuk.org/discover/artworks/a...
    www.thesuffolkcoast.co.uk/
    www.pressreader.com/uk/the-field/20181201/281543701930451
    www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/weird-story-man-they-couldnt-hang-180962210/
    www.art.com/products/p14393075-sa-i3030832/interior-of-a-poor-irish-family-s-mud-cabin-in-county-kildare-1800s.htm
    www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/The_Police_of_the_United_Kingdom
    www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/media/the-history-of-hmic-the-first-150-years.pdf
    www.oldpolicecellsmuseum.org.uk/content/history/police_history/early_uniforms
    www.geograph.org.uk/photo/614546
    www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/jean-francois-millet-french-1814-1875-woodcutter--93-c-b826e58753
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ความคิดเห็น • 47

  • @pickledellies
    @pickledellies 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I really enjoy your local history videos. They're good, there's no need to apologise for them. Thank you.

  • @iancurtis1152
    @iancurtis1152 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    No need to apologise. Your content is always interesting.

  • @boundsgreenboy8354
    @boundsgreenboy8354 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Another great story, always interesting,
    Thank you sir.

  • @orwellboy1958
    @orwellboy1958 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I can only echo what others have said. Well done and thank you.

  • @Katietoo
    @Katietoo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    It's good to cross my home boundaries of Essex legends, and add the Suffolk folk to them. A very informative and pictorial local history video of John Ducker. I also, always, enjoy your narrations. Thanks for sharing and greetings from France.

    • @alittlebitofhistory
      @alittlebitofhistory  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      When I started I did think of covering Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex but I really don't feel I know the place well enough for that, I will probably expand when I run out of N/S stories.

    • @capt.bart.roberts4975
      @capt.bart.roberts4975 ปีที่แล้ว

      This Essex boy, named Hockley, looks forward to it.

    • @capt.bart.roberts4975
      @capt.bart.roberts4975 ปีที่แล้ว

      Transplanted to Sussex.

  • @exileinderby51
    @exileinderby51 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love your histories of East Anglia and I wish there was someone like you to do a similar thing in my home county of Lancashire. PS no need to apologise, each video is a gem, regardless of length

  • @jerrycruitt5375
    @jerrycruitt5375 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    As usual, an excellent and entertaining presentation. Thank you.

  • @garrymartin6474
    @garrymartin6474 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    It does sound odd that a 62 year old man (old for those days) could win a fight with a 24 year old Police officer 🤔

    • @alittlebitofhistory
      @alittlebitofhistory  2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I agree, I have to say I believe the theory that he probably pushed him, the officer lost his footing in the wet mud and hit his head and drowned, but with John being long known to the police he really didn't stand a chance.

  • @colinp2238
    @colinp2238 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you for this good presentation. It is refreshing to hear one without the sensationalism that is common with the media. There is too often speculation about wht could or would have happened, I find that ridiculous and think that people should focus on the facts and not the fantasy of cases, and you have done that. My congratulations, I have now subscribed hoping to find many more reports such as this.

  • @fubband
    @fubband 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great stuff again 👍🏻 And no need to apologise, throwing short ones in regularly would probably do good things for your viewing stats 👍🏻

    • @alittlebitofhistory
      @alittlebitofhistory  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That is very true, It just hard to tell how long a video will be before I start writing, I am also finding that crime/murder videos seem to do very well.

  • @Mumscup
    @Mumscup 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hey matey, interesting as always, take care from an Australian watcher☮️🍀♥️

  • @bjh7924
    @bjh7924 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Interesting story & great pics 😊

  • @Bethi4WFH
    @Bethi4WFH 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you......very interesting.

  • @karinadebbage5452
    @karinadebbage5452 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Is their anything what happened in Gorleston over the decades??? Love you’re local history...it’s always so beautiful how you make it sound so interesting, perfect...can’t wait for the future stories...🦊🐾🙏🙏🙏❤️

    • @alittlebitofhistory
      @alittlebitofhistory  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I will take a look into it.

    • @chrissweet5740
      @chrissweet5740 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      My guess is some girl was stoned to death some time ago by the villagers. Either by Pagans or Puritans.

  • @beebeelicious
    @beebeelicious 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great as always

  • @folkloreofbeing
    @folkloreofbeing 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Another great video. Happy Weekend to you :)

  • @mfollett3613
    @mfollett3613 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My mum used to work at the Ipswich Port Authority, which is very old and the old Police Station is on the Ground floor. The building is there to this day, but the Police have moved premises.
    Staff from the port were allowed to visit on one day each year, first come, first served. I always hoped my mum would put our names on the list. The year we did, I was mortified to see there was scaffolding covering the whole building (so it could be washed and repointed). Some Idiot workmen had covered the doors and windows and there was no safe way to get into the property. Just my luck!o

  • @hlcdriver
    @hlcdriver ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Pushing someone into a river where they hit their head & drown is still murder. Every year someone somewhere gets into a fight, punches someone else who falls down & hits their head on the pavement & dies from brain injury. In the UK that's still murder.

  • @russellnixon9981
    @russellnixon9981 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    No apologies needed the contents was excellent.

  • @toddcott9510
    @toddcott9510 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Most interesting.
    Many thanks.

  • @elviramcintosh9878
    @elviramcintosh9878 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So interesting, thank you!

  • @aprilgraham-tash1124
    @aprilgraham-tash1124 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very interesting. 🖒 Thank you! 💕

  • @nikki7962
    @nikki7962 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Your voice is great to listen to,,❤❤❤

  • @johnnicholas1488
    @johnnicholas1488 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Don't they say, " two wrongs never
    a right make" ? Could just have well been manslaughter or self
    defense, I suppose.
    Well done. Thank you.

  • @mfollett3613
    @mfollett3613 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I have read in an old book about Ipswich, that the place of the scaffold was on the opposite side of St Helens Street to the Jail. But this hardly makes any difference to Mr.Ducker.

  • @oldgysgt
    @oldgysgt ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Even if Ducker had not intended to kill the constable, and only shoved him, and the constable had struck his head and then drowned, it was Ducker's attempted burglary and resisting arrest that caused the death of Tye. So Ducker was guilty of murder.

  • @damedavidfrith55
    @damedavidfrith55 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Short but sweet

  • @keithwinters3031
    @keithwinters3031 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Historical interest. Local for me.
    Thank you.

  • @barbaralamson7450
    @barbaralamson7450 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    👍

  • @StewartGately
    @StewartGately 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Unfortunately due to my past I find it very difficuĺ to trust the police. Sometimes things occur and after all the police are volunteers whose lives are precious but no more so other people. Respect is earned!

  • @TheBadger74
    @TheBadger74 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Tha's a rum old do oy'll say!

  • @merlinsteele6840
    @merlinsteele6840 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    No, being poor does not necessitate stealing and robbing.

  • @robedwards5709
    @robedwards5709 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why would he have lied? Because he always lied. That was his life and took it to his death.

  • @andrewemery4272
    @andrewemery4272 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There's not been much to do in Suffolk since the hangings stopped - folks have had to make their own entertainment.

    • @alittlebitofhistory
      @alittlebitofhistory  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Honestly the kind of comments you get on the Facebook page for residents of my village I feel a lot of them would be right at home at a public hanging.

    • @andrewemery4272
      @andrewemery4272 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@alittlebitofhistory In the audience, or as participants?

    • @alittlebitofhistory
      @alittlebitofhistory  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@andrewemery4272 mostly audience but some would be try to be 1st in line if volunteer hangmen were needed.

  • @gaslitworldf.melissab2897
    @gaslitworldf.melissab2897 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is there a place on earth that hasn't seen "it's share of suffering?" Please direct me with Google search. I'm off.