> > He was at once ferocious and cowardly, and was reported to have
> > always counselled murdering those whom he had robbed.
>
> Now, Robin, was this counsel to the victims of Lambert's robberies? And
who
> did Lambert suggest his victims might murder?
The idea was that he killed the victims of his robberies so that they
couldn't testify against him.
>Was he setting up his own
> hanging?
> Another self-sabotaging crook?
No -- the only one who seriously tried to jouk the gibbet was Deacon Brodie,
and there is something more than mildly ironic about someone being hanged on
a gallows that he built himself.
Brodie's scam was to stuff a silver pipe down his throat.
Didn't work.
Way it goes.
For Larry, a.k.a. Lambert:
http://www.chapters.eiretek.org/books/60y/chapter8.htm
There isn't a version on the Web of anything other than the tarted-up
versions of the goodnight -- as "The Night Before Larry Was Stretched"
The problem with this is that it misses the singularly weird pronunciation
in the Dublin News version which suggested to me a link with Deborah's poem.
(Got it in hardcopy, but bugger me if I can be bothered to scan it, unless
someone -- Joanna? -- is especially interested.)
Deacon Brodie, as I'm sure everyone knows, was the model for RLS's "Doctor
Jekyll and Mister Hyde".
There's also a pub in Edinburgh called the Deacon Brodie which serves
vegetarian haggis on baps. Curiously, this isn't quite as disgusting to eat
as it might seem.
They also sell Deacon Brodie T-shirts. Think I might wear mine to the CCCP
conference.
Da Freemartin
Have I mentioned Sawney Bean yet?
Of course not.
Silly me.
Sweeny Todd.
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