Age: 18
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 2 Jan 1889
Execution Place: Maidstone
Method: unknown
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20070624062456/http://www.fred.net/jefalvey/execute.h
Charles Joseph Dobell and William Gower were convicted of the murder of Bensley Cyrus Lawrence and sentenced to death.
They shot him.
The murder was blamed on the influence of penny-dreadfuls that were said to have fired their imaginations.
see National Archives - HO 144/216/A49141B
