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Moving moment: As Turpin and Lucas went to the gallows, protesters cried outside the Don Jail
Moving moment: As Turpin and Lucas went to the gallows, protesters cried outside the Don Jail

Moving moment: As Turpin and Lucas went to the gallows, protesters cried outside the Don Jail

Date4/27/1987
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Original Toronto Star caption: Moving moment: As Turpin and Lucas went to the gallows; protesters cried outside the Don Jail.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0119749F
Crowds faced cutting wind to protest double hanging, When Ronald Turpin, Arthur Lucas went to their deaths midnight Monday
Crowds faced cutting wind to protest double hanging, When Ronald Turpin, Arthur Lucas went to their deaths midnight Monday
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Declaration of hangings, Posted outside Don jail Tuesday
Declaration of hangings, Posted outside Don jail Tuesday
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Parade of pickets carrying signs protesting capital punishments walked for four hours outside the Don jail in 22-degree cold. Mostly of university age(...)
Parade of pickets carrying signs protesting capital punishments walked for four hours outside the Don jail in 22-degree cold. Mostly of university age(...)
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During the continuing debate on capital punishment, Jack Butterey of Edmonton tours Canadian cities, dressed as a hangman, with a two-foot scaffold as part of his campaign against hanging
During the continuing debate on capital punishment, Jack Butterey of Edmonton tours Canadian cities, dressed as a hangman, with a two-foot scaffold as part of his campaign against hanging
12/28/1972
The Great Debate
The Great Debate
3/25/1987
The contrast, or, The opposite consequences of good and evil habits : exhibited in the lowest ranks of rural life : for the benefit of intelligent servants and the best proficients in Sunday schools
The contrast, or, The opposite consequences of good and evil habits : exhibited in the lowest ranks of rural life : for the benefit of intelligent servants and the best proficients in Sunday schools
1787
Wanton Amusement and the swallows, or, The natural consequences of theft
Wanton Amusement and the swallows, or, The natural consequences of theft
1810
Saved from the gallows when the Ontario appeal court quashed a murder conviction against him, Harold Ferguson, 36, was embraced by his wife when he re(...)
Saved from the gallows when the Ontario appeal court quashed a murder conviction against him, Harold Ferguson, 36, was embraced by his wife when he re(...)
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Tips from the champ, Al Gallow, may help this little boy grow up to be a Yo-Yo demonstrator when he's a teenager. Gallow's company hires 15 youths to demonstrate Yo-Yos across Canada each summer and he says job pays well.
Tips from the champ, Al Gallow, may help this little boy grow up to be a Yo-Yo demonstrator when he's a teenager. Gallow's company hires 15 youths to demonstrate Yo-Yos across Canada each summer and he says job pays well.
6/11/1975
Hood and noose is placed over the head of a German civilian on the gallows at Bruchsal prison, Germay, for the murder of six American airmen shot down in 1944
Hood and noose is placed over the head of a German civilian on the gallows at Bruchsal prison, Germay, for the murder of six American airmen shot down in 1944
11/21/1945
Escaped from the gallows. Souvenirs of a Canadian state prisoner in 1838
Escaped from the gallows. Souvenirs of a Canadian state prisoner in 1838
1862
When Helen Lucas paints, her art gushes out of her own feelings as they are that very moment.
When Helen Lucas paints, her art gushes out of her own feelings as they are that very moment.
6/7/1978