WHEN PUBLIC EXECUTIONS WERE GENERAL
The King of Denmark tavern, in the Old Bailey, in London, is almost directly opposite the present Central Criminal Court. It was formerly known as the Magpie and Stump, the windows of which used to 'be let out to view public executions outside Newgate. Dickens records in "Oliver Twist" that people assembled at the .Magpie and Stump to see Fagi'n hanged. Here, too, Lord Tomnoddy and his friends hired the whole first floor of the inn on the eve of another execution, and then proceeded to gel so drunk that sleep overlook them and they missed the "show," as narrated by ISarnham in "The Ingoldshy Legends." In those days taverns could keep open all night, and the landlords of the Magpie and Stump used to reap golden harvests on "execution nights." *
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 31 July 1929, Page 5
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