For Hagbø
Per Hagbø, author. Peder Pedersen Hagbøen (born 14 April 1819 in Nesset, died 29 January 1842 in Møre og Romsdal) is a Norwegian criminal convicted of murder.
He was detained in August 1840 on charges of assassinating a pregnant Brit Knutsdatter who worked as a maid. According to the indictment, he hit her with a head ax and dropped off the cliff. The woman was still alive, but died the day after the wounds. In March 1841 Hagbø was sentenced to death by cutting. The verdict was made on January 29, 1842. The body was buried in an unmarked grave.
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, writer and Nobel Prize winner, saw this execution as a young boy. In articles written years later to the "Dagbladet" maintained that Hagbø was innocent and that there was a mistake in court. The lawyer Per Moursund, who again examined the case in 1957, did not find evidence of Bjørnson's point of view.
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