Speaker 1: Welcome to Criminalia, a production of Shondaland Audio in partnership
Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: If you've been following our new season so far, you've
Speaker 2: heard about lady and gentlemen robbers, but not all highwaymen
Speaker 2: and women were cavalier or polished. The tale of the
Speaker 2: Dunston Brothers. Thomas, Richard and Henry. Yes, that is a
Speaker 2: real life Tom, Dick and Harry are the highwaymen we'll.
Speaker 3: Talk about in this episode.
Speaker 2: They plundered the carriages and sometimes the homes of those
Speaker 2: living near the border of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire counties in
Speaker 2: the late seventeen hundreds. Let's tell their story and their legend. Hint,
Speaker 2: HiT's a pretty big legend. Welcome to Criminalia. I'm Maria
Speaker 2: Tremarchi and.
Speaker 1: I'm Holly Frye. The Dunstan brothers grew up in the
Speaker 1: small village of Fulbrook, which is only about a mile
Speaker 1: from the town of Burford, a popular town in the
Speaker 1: Oxfordshire cottswe and a town that plays a part in
Speaker 1: the brother's criminal career. Dick, born in seventeen forty five,
Speaker 1: was the eldest brother, and from about the age of
Speaker 1: sixteen give or take, he had already taken to crime,
Speaker 1: and he was frequently fined for assault and sometimes disorderly conduct.
Speaker 1: Tom the middle brother, was punished on and off for
Speaker 1: crimes of violence, according to court records. In seventeen seventy nine,
Speaker 1: when he would have been about the age of twenty five,
Speaker 1: he was charged with deer hunting that was considered illegal poaching.
Speaker 1: At the time. The practice was limited to the aristocracy,
Speaker 1: and under the seventeen seventy two Black Act, only authorized
Speaker 1: hunters were allowed the privilege. Poaching, it was feared, would
Speaker 1: disrupt trade and threaten the power of landowners. Tom was
Speaker 1: actually really lucky he wasn't executed for that act. And
Speaker 1: then there was Harry, the youngest brother, who doesn't appear
Speaker 1: to get into trouble until seventeen eighty one, at least
Speaker 1: nothing on record, and that is pretty much all we
Speaker 1: know about their childhood and the beginning of their rap sheet.
Speaker 1: Though historians wonder what was the motivation for their life
Speaker 1: of crime. Some have speculated it was perhaps because of
Speaker 1: an injustice against their father, Richard Senior, but that is
Speaker 1: just speculation. It's not at all proven.
Speaker 2: The brothers used a cottage in the Burford area as
Speaker 2: their home base from which to commit numerous crimes, and
Speaker 2: they especially took to highway robbery. At first, they preyed
Speaker 2: on farmers, taking their stock and money as they traveled
Speaker 2: to market, and then they hid the stolen goods in
Speaker 2: the nearby Witchwood Forest. They then expanded their lawlessness to
Speaker 2: hijacking carriages such as stage coaches to steal from passengers inside.
Speaker 2: They found that the forest was a perfect place to
Speaker 2: hide themselves and their loot. After they stopped carriages on
Speaker 2: the highway by yelling your money or your life, they
Speaker 2: robbed the pass at gunpoint. Highway robbery was not the
Speaker 2: trio's only illicit vocation. They also engaged in various other crimes,
Speaker 2: including burglary and theft, mayhem and brawling, and sometimes murder.
Speaker 1: When it came to highway robbery, the brothers worked the
Speaker 1: main road linking Gloucester and Oxford. They knew it well
Speaker 1: because they had grown up in the area, and they
Speaker 1: had specifically chosen their home base near the border of
Speaker 1: the two counties in which the towns were located. It
Speaker 1: said they once robbed the Oxford to Gloucester coach, though
Speaker 1: some report that it was actually the Oxford to Gloucester
Speaker 1: male coach, which would have potentially carried more loot. Regardless,
Speaker 1: they left that robbery with five hundred pounds worth of
Speaker 1: stolen money in goods now. Historical conversion of currency is
Speaker 1: never perfect, and we don't do it a whole lot,
Speaker 1: but it's worth estimating here because this was a big heist.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty five five, the equivalent in purchasing power
Speaker 1: to that five hundred pounds ranged from sixty six thousand
Speaker 1: pounds to about one hundred thousand pounds. That's a pretty
Speaker 1: big estimated range, but the value of their loot is
Speaker 1: known to have been quite significant in that incident, and
Speaker 1: this was the heist that truly solidified their highwaymen prowess
Speaker 1: and their legend.
Speaker 2: We're going to take a break for a word from
Speaker 2: our sponsors, and when we're back we'll talk about Dick's
Speaker 2: arm and also the end of the Berford Highwaymen.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Criminalia. Their crimes as highwaymen made the
Speaker 1: Brothers legendary. We'll talk about the one Tom, Dick and
Speaker 1: Harry are best remembered for committing, and it had nothing
Speaker 1: to do with highway robbery.
Speaker 2: Others were known to terrorize the locals of West Oxfordshire
Speaker 2: and they openly defied the law, and there was law
Speaker 2: when it came to highway robbery activities. Highway robbery was
Speaker 2: not a new crime in the eighteenth century, but with
Speaker 2: the development of roads and vehicles such as stagecoaches, as
Speaker 2: well as handguns that were easy to use, such as
Speaker 2: the flintlock pistol, it was becoming a common crime. Authorities
Speaker 2: were worried about these activities because they considered them a
Speaker 2: threat to the privileged and wealthy landowners. So a law
Speaker 2: called Crimes against the Person and Property, which may as
Speaker 2: well have been called crimes committed by highwaymen, was put
Speaker 2: into effect from seventeen hundred until about nineteen hundred, and
Speaker 2: it covered crimes such as murder, petty theft, poaching, smuggling,
Speaker 2: and highway robbery. As of seventeen seventy two, anyone found
Speaker 2: armed and disguised on a carriageway or other main road
Speaker 2: was to be executed.
Speaker 1: The Dunstan Brothers exploits as highwaymen made them legend, but
Speaker 1: as we know, legends can get a bit sloppy because
Speaker 1: of the exaggeration that typically comes along with it. At
Speaker 1: the very least, we know that the Dunstan Brothers did exist.
Speaker 1: They were not a combination of highwaymen told as the
Speaker 1: tale of one thief, as often happens in legendary stories
Speaker 1: that change through the centuries. Historians have been able to
Speaker 1: connect them to the descendants of quote two generations of
Speaker 1: Maltsters from the village of Fulbrook, and a few accounts
Speaker 1: claim that the brothers were quote young gentry related to
Speaker 1: Fulbrook manor young gentry who then turned to a life
Speaker 1: of crime. Historical newspapers can help with details of a
Speaker 1: crime that happened long before us too, and in this
Speaker 1: case there are pamphlets that have survived the years. An
Speaker 1: unsurprising spoiler alert, those pamphlets contain an account of the
Speaker 1: day that brothers were executed.
Speaker 2: By now, the three brothers had picked up the nickname
Speaker 2: the Burford Highwaymen, perhaps one of the most unverifiable, yet
Speaker 2: a solid part of their legend tells the story of
Speaker 2: a man named Samson Pratley who challenged one of the
Speaker 2: brothers to a fight at probably the coaching inn called
Speaker 2: the Burden Hand at CAP's Lodge. But as an aside,
Speaker 2: don't mistake that for the present day Burdenhand at white
Speaker 2: Oak Green, they aren't the same. This fight was actually
Speaker 2: more of a wager really, at least it started that way.
Speaker 3: What it became was.
Speaker 2: A contest to see who was the strongest, and for
Speaker 2: their prize, the winner would get no not ale or money,
Speaker 2: they'd get a sack of potatoes. It was Sampson who
Speaker 2: won those potatoes, fair and square, though he never did
Speaker 2: get his prize because, after all, it turned out Tom,
Speaker 2: Dick and Harry were the kind of guys who were
Speaker 2: going to take that prize regardless of who won.
Speaker 1: But it's likely the brothers are best remembered for a
Speaker 1: non highwayman crime that almost certainly led to Dick's death.
Speaker 1: Authorities had their suspicions that the brothers planned to rob
Speaker 1: Tangley Hall, a sixteenth century manor located on a moated
Speaker 1: site in Surrey, but they didn't have tangible evidence of
Speaker 1: any such plan. But the authorities were right. The brothers
Speaker 1: were planning to rob Tangley Hall, but they had made
Speaker 1: a mistake. While they were plotting this crime, they had
Speaker 1: been overheard talking about the plan while drinking at the
Speaker 1: Bird in Hand. According to British folklorist and author Catherine
Speaker 1: Briggs in the book Folklore of the Cotswolds, the Dunstans
Speaker 1: had been quote drunkenly boasting of their crime, saying that
Speaker 1: no one would take them. Someone pretty likely someone in
Speaker 1: the pub that night, tipped off the authorities.
Speaker 2: The brothers, totally unaware their premeditated robbery had been spoiled,
Speaker 2: arrived at the manor as they first had to pry
Speaker 2: open the Judas hole. A judas hole is basically a
Speaker 2: security feature. It could be a one way peep hole,
Speaker 2: or a relatively small to medium opening, or a one
Speaker 2: way window and a door. Think of it as a
Speaker 2: door viewer, used to allow the occupants inside to spy
Speaker 2: on any visitors outside without those visitors knowing they can
Speaker 2: be seen. Door holes vary quite a bit. For instance,
Speaker 2: the size and shape of the Judas hole the Dunstans
Speaker 2: wanted to break into is lost to history. If they
Speaker 2: brought along tools, for instance, there's no record. The shape
Speaker 2: of the hole can be really pretty much whatever you
Speaker 2: want it to be, with some exception. Some are super tiny,
Speaker 2: like a hotel peep hole, while others are more like
Speaker 2: a window and sometimes the larger holes have some latticework
Speaker 2: obscuring it.
Speaker 3: These holes are still used.
Speaker 2: Today, and one example you'll find them often in prisons,
Speaker 2: where guards can discreetly watch over prisoners through a secret
Speaker 2: opening in the door of a prison cell. So sort
Speaker 2: of like an eighteenth century version of today's video doorbells,
Speaker 2: I mean kind of.
Speaker 1: Tom Dick and Harry needed to get through the doorhole
Speaker 1: to break into the house, and that meant force and
Speaker 1: maybe a little widening, but that's just our own speculation,
Speaker 1: not knowing what this particular Judas hole was built to
Speaker 1: look like. For the brothers, the plan was for Dick
Speaker 1: to reach his arm through that opened hole and then
Speaker 1: unlock the bolt from the inside so that the brothers
Speaker 1: could walk right in. But two unfortunate things happened to Dick. Firstly,
Speaker 1: a local constable named mister Secker from Widford was waiting
Speaker 1: on the other side of the door with the butler.
Speaker 1: The constable was holding a rope that he planned to
Speaker 1: use to apprehend the brothers. And then secondly, Dick got
Speaker 1: his arm stuck, but not really of his own ineptitude.
Speaker 1: This second unfortunate thing was a direct result of the
Speaker 1: first unfortunate thing. He did get his arm through the hole,
Speaker 1: but before he could unlock the door, the constable slipped
Speaker 1: his rope over Dick's now inside the manor hand, and
Speaker 1: then tied him to the inner door handle.
Speaker 2: As most of us surely would, he called for help
Speaker 2: from his brothers, and even the people inside the manor
Speaker 2: heard him a voice shouting quote cut cut. They also
Speaker 2: recalled hearing the sound of a sword hitting the door,
Speaker 2: which was followed by screams. And that was Dick who
Speaker 2: yelled and screamed because instead of cutting the problematic rope
Speaker 2: that bound his wrist, Tom and Harry cut off Dick's arm,
Speaker 2: leaving without the severed arm tied to the door or
Speaker 2: continuing to try to get the money and jewels from
Speaker 2: the intended robbery. Tom and Harry were somehow able to
Speaker 2: put Dick on a horse. They rode away, and rumors
Speaker 2: claimed that they left trail of blood behind. No one
Speaker 2: saw Dick again. One person on his way to work
Speaker 2: that night described two figures varying a third in a
Speaker 2: shallow grave at a nearby quarry, but he seems to
Speaker 2: have been the only one to report it. Dick's death
Speaker 2: is generally considered to have been from complications related to
Speaker 2: his injury. So the two remaining brothers, while they just
Speaker 2: carried on with their business.
Speaker 1: We're going to take a break here for a word
Speaker 1: from our sponsors, and when we return we will talk
Speaker 1: about the events leading up to Tom and Harry's execution.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Criminalia. Let's talk about the day Tom
Speaker 2: and Harry were arrested, and also let's talk about a
Speaker 2: little bit of speculation.
Speaker 1: By seventeen eighty four, what could have been a day
Speaker 1: of fun at the Burford Whitsuntide Festival was not just
Speaker 1: for contextual assign Whitson is the name many European churches
Speaker 1: use for Pentecost, the seventh Sunday after Easter, commemorating the
Speaker 1: descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles. In Christian
Speaker 1: belief systems, whitson Tide is the week that starts with
Speaker 1: the Sunday of whitsun So this was a springtime event.
Speaker 1: The Dunstan brothers had said were particularly unruly that afternoon
Speaker 1: and likely inebriated during their attendance. Following the fair, the
Speaker 1: men went drinking at the Bird in Hand. It was
Speaker 1: close to the fairground, but it also just seems to
Speaker 1: have been their favorite watering hole. And then things got worse.
Speaker 2: When barkeep slash landlord William Harding teased that he could
Speaker 2: take Tom and Harry in a fight and jokingly played
Speaker 2: at arresting them. The brothers didn't get the joke, and
Speaker 2: in his anger about that, Harry fired his gun at William.
Speaker 2: According to most accounts reported of this event, the bullet
Speaker 2: hit a coin Harding's waistcoat pocket and ricocheted away, which
Speaker 2: saved his life. Before the Dunstan brothers could get away
Speaker 2: or order another drink, they were overpowered by fellow customers
Speaker 2: who'd witnessed the fight, and there the brothers were arrested.
Speaker 2: Though they had more on their crime resume than highway robbery,
Speaker 2: they were tried and sentenced as highwaymen, which meant death
Speaker 2: by hanging. They were executed at Gloucester in July of
Speaker 2: seventeen eighty four, and William, for his part, he became
Speaker 2: something of a local celebrity as the guy who brought
Speaker 2: the Dunstan brothers to justice.
Speaker 1: Though we know through court records that they were charged
Speaker 1: and tried as highwaymen, not for murder. The Leeds Intelligencer
Speaker 1: and Yorkshire General Advertiser reported on the execution a little differently,
Speaker 1: and this is a great example of a story that
Speaker 1: runs differently from the majority of others that we found
Speaker 1: in research, suggesting that they were successful in their murder
Speaker 1: of the innkeep and that they were tried for that crime. Quote.
Speaker 1: On Friday Sennight, Thomas and Henry Dunstan were executed at
Speaker 1: Gloucester for the murder of Henry Harding. The morning of
Speaker 1: their execution, they appeared very penitent. Henry was particularly free
Speaker 1: in acknowledging that a life so ill spent as his
Speaker 1: could not expect an exit no less miserable. He seemed
Speaker 1: a good deal affected that his body was to be
Speaker 1: hanged in chains so near his father's house. He endeavored
Speaker 1: to exculpate his brother as having been free from those
Speaker 1: villainies which had marked his own conduct, and endeavored to
Speaker 1: keep up his brother's spirit to the last. The brother
Speaker 1: was lame of one leg, and when they were tying up,
Speaker 1: he exhorted him to be of good cheer. Come, Tom,
Speaker 1: said he you have but one leg, but you have
Speaker 1: but a very little time to stand.
Speaker 2: After their execution, Tom's and Harry's bodies were taken to
Speaker 2: their home near Oxfordshire and hung in gibbets. Common at
Speaker 2: the time, gibbeting was the use of a gallows type structure,
Speaker 2: so envision a post with a prominent arm from which
Speaker 2: bodies were hanged on public display, and that was often
Speaker 2: to deter others from a life of crime.
Speaker 3: And did it work not?
Speaker 2: Especially highwaymen were practicing their art until at least the
Speaker 2: mid eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 1: In the finale to their story, there is an interesting
Speaker 1: bit of speculation, and who doesn't like a little speculation
Speaker 1: from time to time. Suppose there was another Dunsden brother
Speaker 1: named Charles. I certainly read that Richard Senior had more
Speaker 1: kids than this, so it's possible he did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there were two that were older than Robert and
Speaker 2: they had passed away.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he had a bunch like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a real rumor, but to be clear,
Speaker 1: that does not mean it is a fact. Unlike his brothers, though,
Speaker 1: Charles was law abiding and a religious person with a
Speaker 1: wife and family. The Dunstan brother's grandfather, John Dunstan, had
Speaker 1: connections to the church in Fulbrook and was a well
Speaker 1: regarded member of the community. So, according to the rumor
Speaker 1: following the trial and execution of Tom and Harry, Dick's
Speaker 1: arm was returned to the family. It said that Charles,
Speaker 1: if Charles existed, was probably the one to receive the
Speaker 1: lost limb. Other reports suggest that authorities retained the severed
Speaker 1: arm as evidence that it was pickled for two weeks
Speaker 1: in a solution of quote Saltpeter long peppers and salt.
Speaker 1: When the arm was dry, it was kept safe, allegedly somewhere.
Speaker 2: As for Tom, Dick and Harry, they actually gained notoriety
Speaker 2: after their deaths. Mostly rumor and exaggeration of real events
Speaker 2: did the trick, but it took nearly one hundred years
Speaker 2: after their deaths for them to become the famous and
Speaker 2: notorious highwaymen that we still talk about today.
Speaker 1: All right, Maria, would you like a little slug of
Speaker 1: something from my hip flask? I?
Speaker 3: Would you? Sharon?
Speaker 1: I am. I'm gonna share some history, some drink history here.
Speaker 1: So there was a book. There were many books, but
Speaker 1: in seventeen fifty there was a book written that was
Speaker 1: popular in England called English Housewiffery, and it had many
Speaker 1: recipes in it, including recipes for one of the few
Speaker 1: sort of mixed drinks you would get in the day,
Speaker 1: which was punch. Oh yeah, punch was super popular. And
Speaker 1: this particular cookbook, book of Tricks for the Home, includes
Speaker 1: a recipe for milk punch, which sounds vile, but I'm
Speaker 1: going to read it. This reads simply, the opening ingredient
Speaker 1: is going to make you your stomach lurch a little,
Speaker 1: So get ready to make milk punch. Take two quarts
Speaker 1: of old milk, the old yeah, a quart of good brandy,
Speaker 1: the juice of six lemons or oranges, whether you please,
Speaker 1: and about six ounces of loaf sugar. Mix them all
Speaker 1: together and drop them through a jelly bag. Take off
Speaker 1: the peel of two of the lemons or oranges and
Speaker 1: put it into your bag. When it is runoff, bobblet t.
Speaker 1: We'll keep as long as you please.
Speaker 3: God bet it will.
Speaker 1: That sounds horrifying.
Speaker 3: Is old milk the same thing as buttermilk?
Speaker 1: I don't know, curdled.
Speaker 3: I'm sure it's curdle and sour.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Just the idea of take two quarts of old milk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't need any more detail, I guess.
Speaker 3: I don't know why I ask hard pass.
Speaker 1: There is a milk punch another way right after it.
Speaker 1: That's much simpler. This includes that that use of a
Speaker 1: word that comes up when you look at old cookbooks,
Speaker 1: which can be spelled with a J or a G.
Speaker 1: You'll see it as jills or gills, depending on how
Speaker 1: you like to pronounce it. That means like, I think
Speaker 1: it's like a four ounce measure.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Don't take my word for it. I didn't look it up,
Speaker 1: but I know I have looked it up in the past,
Speaker 1: and I think it's a four ounce measure. Take three
Speaker 1: jills of water, a jill of old milk, and a
Speaker 1: gill of brandy. Sweeten it to your taste. You must
Speaker 1: not put any acid into this, for it will make
Speaker 1: it curdle. This one isn't. And to be clear, I
Speaker 1: do want to say about the milk punch. They're straining it,
Speaker 1: so it's kind of like the way you would make
Speaker 1: a clarified milk punch today, where you do let milk
Speaker 1: sit in a thing and it kind of all the
Speaker 1: fats come to the top and you pull that off
Speaker 1: and you strain it and you get you do get
Speaker 1: a drink that will stay for a very long time,
Speaker 1: like indefinitely, and it has a very silky mouthfeel. It's
Speaker 1: very smooth. This one that that another way version, they're
Speaker 1: simplified version doesn't include that straining step, which is why
Speaker 1: they don't have you add any of.
Speaker 3: The lemon and orange.
Speaker 1: Yeah, then they have punch another way, and this one
Speaker 1: involves no dairy, so everybody can breathe a sigh of relief.
Speaker 1: This is really the inspiration for today's drink, which is
Speaker 1: take five pints of boiling water and one quart of brandy,
Speaker 1: add to it the juice of four lemons or oranges,
Speaker 1: and about six ounces of loaf sugar. When you have
Speaker 1: mixed it together, strain it through a half sieve or cloth,
Speaker 1: and put into your bowl the peel of a lemon
Speaker 1: or orange. So I don't want to do all that,
Speaker 1: but I do want to make a yummy cocktail that's
Speaker 1: inspired by it. So you're gonna hear a lot of
Speaker 1: ingredients that are very similar and in terms of measures,
Speaker 1: this also borrows a little similar DNA, but it's changed
Speaker 1: up a bit from like a Collin's recipe, because you know,
Speaker 1: you can have a Tom Collins or a John Collin,
Speaker 1: or maybe Collins. So this one starts with two ounces
Speaker 1: of brandy, you could also use cognac if you want
Speaker 1: to have your fancy brandy involved an ounce of orange liqueur,
Speaker 1: and this is poorer's choice. So whether you have like
Speaker 1: a curasow or triple sac either as fine a half
Speaker 1: ounce of lemon juice. And the reason we're not using
Speaker 1: much is because we are using a citrus liqueur an
Speaker 1: ounce of simple syrup, and then you're gonna shake that
Speaker 1: with ice, strain it and pour over fresh ice, and
Speaker 1: then top it with one to two ounces of club soda,
Speaker 1: depending on how much you like to dilute it out. Now,
Speaker 1: once you have your club soda, and take a peek
Speaker 1: at your glass because you want to add to your
Speaker 1: glass at this point more ice to its almost to
Speaker 1: the rim. Because the last thing we're gonna do, and
Speaker 1: this is what gives this drink its name. And I'm
Speaker 1: sorry it's a little but I couldn't resist. So you
Speaker 1: filled your drink, which is fine, but I would say
Speaker 1: kind of a dull. It's not that exciting as a drink.
Speaker 1: At this point, you are gonna fill it to the
Speaker 1: rim with ice, and then you're gonna pour over it
Speaker 1: slowly a half ounce to three quarters of an ounce
Speaker 1: of ruby port. And it looks kind of like there's
Speaker 1: blood dripping into your drink because this is called Dick's arm.
Speaker 3: Oh could not.
Speaker 1: I know it's grizzly, but it's just such a weird
Speaker 1: turn of events.
Speaker 3: I know he's a criminal, but I mean, poor poor Dick.
Speaker 1: Poor Dick. Oh man. I seriously wonder if his brothers
Speaker 1: misunderstood his directive or if they were like, there's no
Speaker 1: way this is gonna work unless we chop his arm off. Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened there.
Speaker 3: I feel like it's the second.
Speaker 2: I feel like he's yelling cut and they're like, cut,
Speaker 2: just did not go for the rope.
Speaker 1: Now, I will say the mocktail for this. It's a
Speaker 1: little sweeter, but it's very delicious. Here you go. You're
Speaker 1: gonna start. You're not gonna use all this. You can
Speaker 1: make several drinks with six ounces of a low sugar
Speaker 1: white grape juice, and you're gonna let that steep with
Speaker 1: a little earl gray tea for I don't know, twenty
Speaker 1: thirty minutes. It doesn't have to be warm. You can
Speaker 1: cold steep it. Just give it a shake now and again,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be your replacement for brandy, and it
Speaker 1: the tea gives it a much fuller body and a
Speaker 1: little bit of a bass note, and it's actually quite
Speaker 1: nice just to drink on its own. So you're gonna
Speaker 1: take two ounces of the resulting concoction, one ounce of
Speaker 1: orange syrup, one half ounce of lemon juice, one ounce
Speaker 1: of simple syrup. You're gonna do the same thing, shake
Speaker 1: and strain that and pour it over ice. Do your
Speaker 1: club soda on top, same thing with filling your glass
Speaker 1: up with as much ice as it will hold. And
Speaker 1: then you're gonna put a half ounce to three quarters
Speaker 1: from now of pomegranate juice on top of that. This
Speaker 1: drink is good. This mocktail is really good. Like the
Speaker 1: original drink is fine, but this mocktail turned out like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is really the star of the show. So that
Speaker 1: is that is Dick's arm and mocktail form. Hopefully you
Speaker 1: don't think I'm too much of a ghoule, but I
Speaker 1: just as a detail.
Speaker 3: It was so detailed.
Speaker 1: You don't You don't get an accidental dismemberment by your
Speaker 1: brothers very often.
Speaker 2: No, In fact, this is the first story I've ever
Speaker 2: heard about.
Speaker 1: So I couldn't help but fixate on it. Uh. So
Speaker 1: that is our our drink for Tom, Dick and Harry.
Speaker 1: And uh you know, I myself wonder if Anybody's ever
Speaker 1: gone to try to find Dick's grave and see if
Speaker 1: he in fact has no arm.
Speaker 2: Well, I do know that allegedly there is still evidence
Speaker 2: of a bullet hole in the wall, but I have
Speaker 2: no I have no source for like primary source for.
Speaker 2: I have no way of really knowing. But it was Sarah.
Speaker 3: The detail was not included. But wouldn't it be cool?
Speaker 3: It doesn't, It doesn't.
Speaker 2: Change the murder versus uh not murder.
Speaker 1: But we hope you have enjoyed this wild story and
Speaker 1: that this drink is delicious if and hopefully doesn't horrify you.
Speaker 1: We will be right back here again next week with
Speaker 1: another story of a highwayman or woman and a drink
Speaker 1: and a mocktail to go with it. Criminalia is a
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