Age: 64
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 26 Mar 1890
Execution Place: Newgate
Method: unknown
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20070624062456/http://www.fred.net/jefalvey/execute.h
On 24 January, John Neal, a bricklayer, and his much younger wife, Theresa, moved into new lodgings at Islington. Four days later he stabbed her to death in a fit of jealousy and was arrested. On the gallows, he claimed: 'I'm sorry I committed the murder but she was a bad wife to me.' He was hanged in Newgate by James Berry on the 26th March 1890 at the age of sixty four..
