Dee-Brief: Birmingham's Last Public Execution
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Dee-Brief: Birmingham's Last Public Execution
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The man who was hanged for murdering someone who wasn't dead
In this episode of Dee-Brief, Dee uncovers one of Birmingham's strangest and most misunderstood criminal cases.
In 1806, Philip Matsell was publicly hanged before a crowd of around 40,000 people after being convicted of murdering night watchman Robert Twyford.
There's just one problem.
Twyford wasn't dead.
In fact, he survived the shooting and lived for another eight years.
So how could someone be executed for murder when the victim was still alive?
The answer lies in a fascinating mixture of nineteenth-century law, public opinion, unreliable witnesses, and the way history sometimes simplifies a much more complicated story.
Along the way, Dee explores Birmingham before modern policing, the role of night watchmen, the dramatic public execution that became the city's last, and the lingering questions over whether Philip Matsell was even the right man.
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Sources
The Birmingham Dispatch – The Murder That Never Was: The Strange Story of Birmingham's Last Public Execution
Contemporary reports from The Birmingham Gazette