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pvsgroup | 04:28 Tue 24th Apr 2001 | People & Places
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Why do they say about West Hartlepool-'That's where they hung the monkey'?
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The story goes that in the 18th Century a ship sailed into Hartlepool with a monkey on board. The people of the town, never having seen one before, presumed that it was a foreign spy and hanged it.

Capital punishment for animals was popular in earlier times, especially in France where pigs, in particular, were sentenced to death.
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