A mere legality

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> A notable instance is that of Mark, convicted together with a female
> servant of petty treason for the murder of their master. Â After being
> hung in 1755, Mark's body was taken to Charlestown, where the crime
> had been committed, and left hanging at a crossroads near the
> Charlestown ferry, at a point where the road turned towards Medford
> and Cambridge. Â Mark's body is alleged to have been seen by Paul
> Revere on his ride, 20 years later, but it is more likely that
> Revere's reference is merely an identification of a well-known
> location. Â (It is certain that Mark's body was still there in 1758, 3
> years after his execution, but there are only second-hand assertions
> that it was still there until shortly before the Revolution.)

But, what would have kept the remains hanging for even three years,
without falling apart, let alone for twenty?

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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