Poker face

 Jane Jameson was 30yrs old and had 2 illegitimate children whom both died in strange circumstances. It was said in a drunken fit she had tried to cut her father's throat. Jane was an alcoholic and was poor, so moved in with her mother Margaret. Jane also moved in her partner Billy Ellison. Jane and Billy were drinking in a local bar and ran out of money, so Jane returned home to request money from her mother. Margaret refused and accused Jane of murdering her 2 children. 

Jane was angry and in a rage took the red hot poker from the fire grill and stabbed it into her mother's chest. It took several days for Margaret to die, but she did say to authorities that it was an accident in the hope to save Jane from the noose. However, Jane's neighbours gave evidence against Jane - and so Jane was charged and convicted within 5 hrs. Jane was seen to be remorseful for her actions, she was put into a cart and walked through the streets to Newcastle Town Moor. Jane was executed in 1829 in front of 20,000 people. He body was displayed to the crowd for a few hours, dissected by surgeons and plunged into a vat of boiling water.