Joseph Wedlake and George White - a double hanging at Taunton.
Joseph Wedlake and George White - a double hanging at Taunton. May 1883 was a busy month for William Marwood with nine executions to perform and shuttling back and forth between England, Scotland and Ireland to carry them out. On the 7th he hanged Thomas Garry at Lincoln followed the next day by Patrick Carey at Chester. He was in Dublin on the 14th to hang Joseph Brady and presumably stayed there to execute Daniel Curley on the 18th before returning to Taunton on the 20th to hang Wedlake and White the following morning. Then it was up to Glasgow for the hanging of Henry Mullen and Martin Scott at Duke Street prison and then back to Dublin to execute Michael Fagan on the 28th of May. The subjects of today’s execution had committed completely separate murders and both were condemned at the Somerset Lent Assizes before Baron Huddlestone. 30 year old Joseph Wedlake had battered a young man by the name of Mark Cox, to death on Ridgehill Street in Winford on the 7th of January 1883 in a