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But on August 9, 1856, Dorchester was particularly packed. But this was not a time for trading or haggling or errands. It was time for morbid entertainment – the execution of a woman scorned, Elizabeth Martha Brown. Some 3,000 to 4,000 people packed into North Square to witness her death; the last public hanging of a woman in Dorset. Not only has Martha Brown gone down in history, she is also immortalised in fiction. For one of the faces making up the crowd would become a famous writer and get the inspiration for his novel, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, from this event. Author and researcher Rosemary Ellerbeck said: “The main reason for the fascination with Martha Brown is that Thomas Hardy, aged 16, witnessed her execution.
still alive. i ll be damned. for this documentary, thomas moore joined me to revive his brother s memory and along the way we jump-started the entire legal process. things have been happening pretty rapidly. we ve had a meeting with the fbi and we re going to have a meeting with the district attorney and the attorney general and myself. these tragic murders are straight from among the darkest page of our country s history. msnbc presents the film that heats up a cold case and unravels a murder mystery, making headlines and history. you can run on for a long time run on for a long time sooner or later got to cut you down sooner or later got to cut you down you may hide your head working in the dark against your fellow man sure as god made black and white what s done in the dark will be brought to the light you can run on for a long time run on for a long time tell them that god is going to cut you down i found thomas moore retired and living