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" MRS. WALLACE, " Madam--If your infernal thief of a husband is brought home some day on a hurdle, with every bone in his head smashed to pulp, you will know the reason. Do you tell him from me he is a lying infernal thief, and as sure as his name is Wallace he never dies in his bed. "You must be a miserable wretch to be obliged to live with a convicted felon. Do not think or let him think I have done with him. "John Hampden." For this I brought him up before a police magistrate, and he was bound over to keep the peace for three months, suffering a week's imprisonment before he could find the necessary sureties. But as soon as the three months were up, he began again with more abuse than ever, distributing tracts and writing to small local papers all over England. I now began to receive letters from friends, and also from perfect strangers, asking me if I knew what was said about me everywhere. I will give a summary of the steps I was obliged to take with the results, or rather absence of results, that followed.

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" MRS. WALLACE, " Madam--If your infernal thief of a husband is brought home some day on a hurdle, with every bone in his head smashed to pulp, you will know the reason. Do you tell him from me he is a lying infernal thief, and as sure as his name is Wallace he never dies in his bed. "You must be a miserable wretch to be obliged to live with a convicted felon. Do not think or let him think I have done with him. "John Hampden." For this I brought him up before a police magistrate, and he was bound over to keep the peace for three months, suffering a week's imprisonment before he could find the necessary sureties. But as soon as the three months were up, he began again with more abuse than ever, distributing tracts and writing to small local papers all over England. I now began to receive letters from friends, and also from perfect strangers, asking me if I knew what was said about me everywhere. I will give a summary of the steps I was obliged to take with the results, or rather absence of results, that followed.
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 23:57:24 UTC Robert McNees
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In 1870, Alfred Russel Wallace won a ￡500 bet (that’s about $50,000 today, give or take) with a flat Earther named John Hampden.
He won the bet by demonstrating the curvature of the Earth along a six mile stretch of the Old Bedford river.
Hampden, publicly humiliated, threatened to kill Wallace and was jailed.
https://www.nature.com/articles/001581a0.pdf

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