Show HANGING IN CHAINS an obsolete method of executing calm finals one of thelast instances of an order being made for hanging in chains is that of a chimney sweep who in 1827 murdered a man on tho highway on tha east side of brigg the culprit was tried by mr justice best at lincoln assizes at this time says the um what used to be called the new law courts were building so the dean and chapter lent their chapter house for atie purposes of an assize court the trial lasted all day the poor wretches body never underwent the proposed indignity the inhabitants of took fright thought it has been suggested that the gibbet standing so near the highway would terrify people and hinder them from coming to market they petitioned against the judges order being carried out and the authorities remitted the horror mr hartshorne believes and we have no doubt correctly that the last person hung in chains wa a man named cook who suffered for the murder of a mr this occurred at leicester in 1834 the very year that the custom was put ex jf 17 te |