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@Jean Proctor,I agree.

I lost my first 3 children, had a live birth and then lost 3 more children, its horrific bit still happens in the late 20th Century. My daughter is 30 now with 2 live children and she lost 4 babies too

@@mommabearmanga3758 What an unbelievable Tragedy for you...I am so sorry to hear that...What a Terrible Cross to have to bear...I'm sure Their Precious Little Souls are resting in The Hands of God..May God Bless you, Protect you and give you Strength....

Unless of course YOU killed them and their dad to be free and to inherit his first wife's money.

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@ Annamarie Hewitt As cold as this sounds, death was such a common occurrence for the lower class, miscarriages, infant and young children deaths were just another fact of life. Everyone around them experienced them, everyone in their families experienced them. Children and wives were seen as property. They were replaceable. The women were brought up to believe this, so didn't connect the same emotion to the deaths as we do now. Obviously, if women had, there would not have been 8, 9,10 year olds working in the mines and factories, etc. (Yes, there were exceptions, but it was rare.) Things really didn't change until after the Suffrage movement & a few major factory and mine catastrophes.

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Yes and if Nicole Brown who have ignored that monster

@@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 wth

I had to deal with my sister's ex he came close to killing her don't defend a monster

@@journeysalkebulan OJ Simpson. He absolutely had a hand in her death

Martha beat her husband to death, lied about it, and tried to cover it up.

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Abused, assaulted by a man, arrested charged, tried, judged by men, sentenced and hung by a man!!! Mitigating circumstances dismissed by a man.!Well the 'murder' of a husband by his wife was once termed Petty Treason!! Heartless bastards. RIP Martha Brown, another victim of male abuse and duplicity:Even denied a proper Christian grave and a tombstone!! Just like in England today, an abused woman is uprooted from her home, and the abusive male is allowed to remain by man-friendly police

Yes, our society is so much healthier thanks to broken families.

@@lalagordo Exactly lol

@@annabellasarafaraone4147 woman of gained a lot of power in the last hundred years. A lot of things were so much better then. It's really hard to know what the right answers are about how the world has progressed.

Right? People bemoan the divorce rate, but I celebrate it. Low divorce rates are not equivalent to societies full of happy couples; more often, they signify institutionalized misogyny and financial entrapment which for too many women equates to domestic sexual slavery, especially in "traditional" societies. Eg: Afghani culture follows the strict traditions of an Islamic agricultural society. They have the highest domestic abuse rate in the world and a divorce rate under .05%

“Drunkenness, the wrath of grapes.” I very much like that quote. Thank you, sir.

It clearly wasn't self-defense, she could have left at any point. Self-defense means you've exhausted every other reasonable alternatives. It does not mean killing a drunk man out of revenge. The sentencing was fair.

@ Gary Reid That was then. Cultural norms were different.

@@yahnservices1978 I don't think striking someone with the nearest object, who is hitting you so hard they think there's a chance you'll die overnight is a crime. I suppose your one of those kinda of men and they all stick together against those evil women huh

@@evil1by1 Victim blaming, groundless accuaions and defending predators, you folks will never change. Evil is an accurate nickname and I think this is your nature.

I agree. I had to read "Tess" and thought it was so disheartening.

I'm gonna go with the jury on this one, babe.

A) wish there was someone to corroborate that story but of course the other party can’t defend himself because he is dead b) is the solution to domestic violence murder c) wish she hadn’t lied and tried to cover up the truth, thereby manipulating the investigation d) were was the remorse that she had taken away a life

@@denizen52 f) If someone in their 40s gets with someone half their age, they really should expect boredom and exploration from the younger person.

@@RIVALContentJammerz where did (e) go?

I left that to denizen52 in the event they come up with something to add.

I doubt it because it wasn't a crime to beat your wife, even severely and even nearly to death. If you messed up and she died I'm sure they would find some way to blame the woman for dying and only if they couldn't then maybe he'd get in a spot of trouble.

I knew women in prison to whom that happened. In our state, we don't have the right of self-defense. We only have "the right to retreat." Ha!

It'd all too common even in our modern times

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Maybe, maybe just an old woman who was mad her younger husband was cheating on her. What is certain is that neither of us know.

There is no evidence of her being abused just cheated on, it's hard to hide the bruises every day in the real world

Wow..

Should put her with her actual family like her kids and first husband.

Word? That's crazy

Why do you believe her story without any evidence? She was facing the death penalty and may simply have made that up to try to get off of her crime with a lesser sentence. If she was so badly beaten why didnt the Police or the man she went too see any evidence of it? No bruises? No limping or pain in her side? Evidence first, she was not executed for defending herself, she was executed for cold blooded murder.

@@paulosullivan3472 And why are you defending an abuser? What evidence says it isn't true? What evidence did the all male jury have to prove what she said wasn't true? Why do I believe her? The time period. Whether it was or was not self defense, she was going to be executed. The all male jury would have to make an example of her. She murdered a man. She had to be punished, or else other women would get the idea to do the same

@@unionjack84 You dont know he is an abuser, whereas we know for certain she is a murderer. How do you know it was an all male jury? Women were allowed to be and often were jurors. They were allowed to own businesses and often did, in fact it was more common for women to own businesses than men. You are basically just an idiot who knows nothing but propaganda on this period in history, and even if your propaganda were true it is still not evidence he did anything wrong. You are defending a murderer and painting their victim as the one to be attacked. You should be ashamed of who you are as a person.

@@unionjack84 Well said.

@@paulosullivan3472 Men wanna defend an abuser when he was killed by his victim. lmao You do realize that women didn't have much of a place in society in the Victorian era and their opinions were rarely counted. Hysteria was still a diagnosis. You have zero idea what you are talking about. Nor do you have any idea that the jury had any female members. You are the one who needs to feel ashamed. Defending abusive men is the reason why women are so afraid to speak up. Misogynist.

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Sad story, thank you.

@@shirleybradshaw8048 The stories are always sad unfortunately 🤷‍♀️.Greetings from Germany ❤‼

Yeah happy father's day our KZfaq daddy

You don't have a choice. It's either marital slavery or starvation.

Men marry women half their age and it is socially acceptable, although, I'm with you...it wouldn't be my personal choice, no sir.

You assume you have a choice.

It would be fine if you had an affair with him.

Same as x

Such a beautiful county

It sure is.

Really?! Do any of those beautiful historical buildings she lived and worked in still stand? (Or ware those just random photos)

I didn't recognise any of the buildings but when I have 5 mins I will look again and pay more attention. But I imagine they were stock photos because you really don't see a lot of that architecture left. Not in my part of Dorset anyhow.

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@monke, MD (sigh) He put a smiley for Pete's sake.

@monke, MD Yeah, why not? I'm on my old phone or I would have used an emoji

@monke, MD Not a boy :( oop, cringe inducing too? I've bever seen (sigh) anywhere, it's just something I used to write in letters. Now that I know it was a Thing, I will not use it again! This was um, the third or fourth time only so it's fine. I've only been interested in YT for 3 years, so I hope you find it in your heart to forgive me

What!😱I’m so glad you made a quick recovery.

@@englishcountrylife3805 LOL! Yes I did!

Yes...odd setting for flowery, descriptive narrative. Time and place, Tom Hardy, time and place! 😳😂

Thomas Hardy is one of my favorite writers. I think it was in Jude the Obscure that one of Jude's children hanged himself. I wonder if witnessing Martha's hanging was an inspiration for that scene. He wrote some incredible books. I read Tess of the D'Urbervilles a couple times. Talk about a struggle life! I don't think I could handle it again.

Hello Crimey. Love your channel, too!

OMG Crimey!!!

@@cruisepaige ikr? : )

Hey, I think much better after 7 beers. I get real philosophical like

If you read crime novels from the early 20th century that seems to have been fairly standard practice. I wouldn't swear to it but I think some episodes of Midsomer Murders (set in the last decade of the 20th century & then the 21st century) also have the police setting up temporary operations rooms in pubs. Pubs don't just consist of bars, they usually have function rooms that can be repurposed. And you don't have to go far to get a meal.

@@resourcedragon Pub is short for Public, and they were meeting places. Maybe they didn't really drink during meetings. Their houses were small and filled with 17 children, right?

I jave heard of courthouses above pubs and even executions (hangings) inside said courthouse.

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Doubtful I’m afraid, woman taking a mans life, in Victorian times women & children had little value!!

So true

A Caucasian female could POSSIBLY be acquitted, present day. I urge you to research the statistics on women currently incarcerated. My heart got broken and my mind was BLOWN.

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Sorry :(

@@BriefCaseOfficial Not your fault. Life is rough, dude. I still luv ya, man. Keep that awesome depressing content coming! 😁👍

I totally disagree with you. America does NOT see women as property. America has lots of people, and lots of people have lots of issues, but we don’t force anyone into marriage, we don’t offer dowries to sell off our daughters, etc., etc. Where do you see women being treated like property? Maybe foreigners living in America, who still believe in honor killings and whatnot, but don’t put that on us. 🇺🇸

@@janicesmith2475 You say "don't put that on *us*" as though I wasn't born here and lived my whole life here too. And as a proud, 100% monoglot American, I can tell you this with utter confidence: as a People, as a Society, we find the idea of one person viewing and/or holding another as "property" despicable and abhorrent. Just as you said. Now that we have *that* out of the way, there are groups of people who were born & raised right here in the good ol' U. S. of A. who believe that in a marriage a good wife is totally subservient to her husband. Her purpose is to devote herself to making her man's home and home life as happy and perfect as he could want. Any wants, needs, or desires of hers are of no concern as hers are of no consequence because she's just a woman. Children, of course, are the property of the parents just as the woman is the property of the husband (and since the woman has no say basically the kids are property of the father, until marriage arrangements are made.) We're talking about hard-line Fundamentalist Christians. Not "Christians" in general and not every Fundamentalist. But the "The Bible is to be taken literally - the Earth is 5,000 years old - Evolution is just a "theory" - humans & dinosaurs inhabited the planet @ the same time (cuz it's only 5,000 yo) - and on and on. If you're gonna have a "women exist to serve men" type (& there're women with zero self-esteem & are more than happy to buy into this) then chances are you're looking at a FundiChristian. It's very sad comment on us that so many of us believe that the only people who view women as property are extreme Right-wing Muslims in Malaysia, The Middle East, and Africa. We consume news stories where they are selling child brides for goats and engaging in genital mutilation. Our religious right-wingers aren't that bad. But the ones I've seen, that I've had the misfortune of dealing with personally - I honestly believe that if they thought they could get away with a marriage contract where they got a few grand and some goods in exchange for letting their daughter marry some other parents' son and not get into any legal morass.... Yeah - they'd do it in a heartbeat. So don't believe all the propaganda. Not all the backwards thinking religious goons who see women & 4K TVs in the same social standing are dark skinned foreigners. A lot of them are good, God-fearing 'Muricans who are so white they damn near glow in the dark. And, yeah, I have no problem dumping this on you.

@@dank8865 You obviously think very highly of yourself and your perceptive powers, eh? You’ve wrongly assumed way too much about me, and your arguments are way off.

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Just finished work and came to listen to you straight away! Hope you had a lovely Father's Day! Sorry i forgot to tell you yesterday, on my listen to your videos. But to me fathers are everyday! So, Happy Father's Day everyday!🥳

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I listen while working. Love these old cases that you never hear about on other channels.

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Was it Hardy or someone else who wrote "Anna of the Five Towns"? I think that ties for the title of most depressing book ever written.

@@resourcedragon sounds like that would be Arnold Bennett, he wrote stuff set in the potteries, the "5 towns".

I looked it up: Bennet

I guess you haven't read "Jude the Obscure". Hardy had a very dark soul. I still like him though. Reading Hardy will prepare you for real life in my opinion.

Upsetting yes, but like all his books word perfect English . Tess was is a master piece of the English language . as indeed all his novels books poems are . Jude The Obscure is also heartbreaking upsetting as is The Trumpet Major. Far from the Madding Crowd . The Hand of Ethelberta and of course the tragedy Of The Mayor of Casterbridge . is beyond heartbreaking . just as Tess and Jude And Ethelberta . His works are some of the best writings that ever went tom print . Hardy was a wordsmith like no other . Draws you into his stories and holds one there like a vice . unable to put his books poems Master pieces down .

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Cool! I'm headed to our county library later today!

Men were allowed, if not expected to beat disobedient wives.

I agree, she was on death row, it may have simply been a lie to try to get off of the death sentence.

@@paulosullivan3472 It wasn't, seeing as there wasn't much hope for that. This was a society that hung children for stealing.

The lie was just as bad as the truth. A horse kick to cover up a hatchet to the head multiple times? Think I would've taken my chances. Not much to lose. At least someone might hear her story, if nowhere else in the newspaper, have some sympathy

She should have had injuries to show. It should have helped her case. I think the trauma she had suffered combined with her lack of education to give her a very bad idea for a story to claim total innocence. She had been hit in the head and probably had a concussion to go along with the pain from her other injuries. Poor woman.

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There are many Thomas Hardy fans here. Yay!!

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Because of this tragic story, I think i'm going to read this book again. I hope you will do it again. Enjoy approving in English.

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I love him too! Unique in his descriptions of scenery. Katherine Mansfield said it's like the reader is unaware of the words, they're just seeing the scene

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In those days, it wouldn’t have mattered. She’s still have been convicted. But he wouldn’t have been necessarily convicted for beating her to death.

No, she would have been executed anyway, and her killing her husband was self defense, he was beating her and threatened to blow her brains out. but woman did not have legal recourse in those days with domestic abuse 🙄

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