Band at the execution

[Linda Anderson]

(06-27-2014 11:46 AM)BettyO Wrote:  

Quote:Were the bells tolling in the city when the conspirators were marching out to the scaffold?

They tolled at 1 PM - and I think the march began at something like 1 to 1:25 PM? I get my times mixed up. Supposedly the bodies hanged until 2 PM - is that right? I'm at work (just got in from out in the field) and don't have anything to go by right now....

So if bells were tolling, I think it would be for the time? Supposedly a legend within the Herold family went that family friends who remained at home with Mrs. Herold stopped all the clocks in the house before 1 PM so that Herold's mother would not know what time the march began - however, the church bells outside tolled the hour, which she distinctly heard, so that their efforts were thwarted.

So the church bells were chiming the hours, not for the execution about to happen?