Solomon Blay [SEP] date of death
Solomon Blay
Solomon Blay (20 January 1816 – 18 August 1897) was an English convict transported to the Australian penal colony of Van Diemen's Land (present-day Tasmania). Once his sentence was served, he gained notoriety as a hangman in Hobart, and is believed to have hanged over 200 people in the course of a long career spanning from 1837 to 1887. This made him the longest serving hangman in the British Empire.
Early life and Transportation to Australia.
Blay was born in Oxford and
Peter Winstanley who was shot by Cash and died two days later. Cash was sentenced to death by hanging, but a last minute reprieve saw him sentenced to transportation for life at Norfolk Island. Solomon Blay could never understand why Cash should have ever been sent to Norfolk Island instead of the gallows. When Cash returned to Hobart after the closure of the Norfolk Island penal colony in 1854, the pair paths frequently crossed, when meeting, taunted each other with each other's discrepancies.
Cash in his memoirs wrote, "