Age: 46
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 8 Dec 1903
Crime Location: 4 Back Durham Street, Sunderland
Execution Place: Durham
Method: hanging
Executioner: William Billington
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
James Duffy was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Ellen Newman 25 and sentenced to death.
He strangled her at 4 Back Durham Street, Sunderland on Sunday, 6 September 1903.
see National Archives - HO 144/733/113358
see Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Tuesday 08 December 1903
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 08 December 1903
see Homicide 1903
