Tom Long (died 15 December 1908) was the
New Zealand
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government
hangman in the late 19th-early 20th century, although it was not a full-time position. He executed the "baby farm" murderer
Minnie Dean
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, the only woman hanged in New Zealand.
Long, an Irishman who claimed to have been an executioner in
Australia
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, was appointed as New Zealand's first official hangman in 1877. In a newspaper interview in 1905 he claimed to have executed "fifteen in this country but hundreds in India.". He worked as a bushman and is said to have taken his
swag through
Wairarapa
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in between jobs. He was killed in 1908 while felling trees at Kauangaroa east of
Wanganui
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.
People hanged by Long
*1895
Minnie Dean
As a first name, Minnie is a feminine given name. It can be a diminutive (hypocorism) of Minerva, Winifred, Wilhelmina, Hermione, Mary, Miriam, Maria, Marie, Naomi, Miranda, Clementine or Amelia. It may refer to:
People with the given name
* ...
, murderer.
*1897
William Sheehan
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, murderer.
* 1905
James William Ellis, murderer.
* 1877
William Woodgate, murderer
See also
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Capital punishment in New Zealand
Capital punishment in New Zealand – the process of sentencing convicted offenders to death for the most serious crimes (capital crimes) and carrying out that sentence, as ordered by a legal system – first appeared in a codified form when New ...
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List of people executed in New Zealand
A total of 85 people were executed under New Zealand's capital punishment system while it was in force. An additional five New Zealand soldiers were executed under military regulations in France during World War I, though they subsequently recei ...
References
1908 deaths
New Zealand public servants
Executioners
Accidental deaths in New Zealand
Year of birth missing
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