Kassia St Clair
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380 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Aug
Kassia St Clair’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's said that he kind of, because of this kind of slightly ridiculous defense, he kind of earned the nickname of Apple Pip Kelly later on in his career.
So he is sentenced to death.
And on this occasion, you know, there is no Quaker organization coming to his defense.
And he is executed in front of a crowd of 10,000 people.
So newspapers at this time are really enjoying a boom.
It's a really sort of exciting time for newspapers.
And one of the things that really shifts newspapers are kind of, you know, then as now, are big, juicy papers.
crimes.
They absolutely love a crime.
They love a murder.
If it bleeds, it leads.
And this was one of those stories that really captured people's imaginations.
And it's perfect for the age.
You've got this atrocious murder, which always sells newspapers.
You've got the female victim who's morally ambiguous or grey.
And that was something that newspapers
really enjoyed at the time, you know, sort of kind of suggesting that her death, her end, was a product of her lifestyle or her life choices.
You also have this idea that progress can defeat crime or the kind of inexorable...
triumph of progress and this is something that newspapers really enjoyed too and so this particular crime this particular story has real appeal to newspapers of um of the age and they make a lot of the kind of the role of the telegraph it's the sort of the role of progress the role of science um having this kind of ability to kind of almost create a kind of godlike effect you know the fact that man reasonable intellectual man can with their inventions kind of
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