British Executions

Albert Moore

Age:

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 17 May 1881

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Maidstone

Method: unknown

Executioner: unknown

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1881
May 17th: Albert MOORE (23)
Maidstone
A soldier sentenced to death at Kent Assizes for the murder of Mary Ann Marsh (74). On 15 February, she was left in charge of 'The Woodlands', the residence of a Lieutenant Scriven of the 52nd Regiment, at Gravesend, during his temporary absence. On his return he found her dead inside the house. Her throat had been cut from ear to ear. Moore, a private in the Regiment, who worked as the Lieutenant's batman, was identified as the man seen leaving the house shortly before the murder was discovered. Hanged by Marwood.