Age: 19
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 29 Mar 1904
Crime Location: 9 Bennison Street, Guisborough, Cleveland
Execution Place: Leeds
Method: hanging
Executioner: William Billington
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
James Henry Clarkson was convicted for the murder of Elizabeth Mary Lynas 12 and sentenced to death.
He cut her throat in a yard at 9 Bennison Street, Guisborough, Cleveland on 27 December 1903.
see National Archives - HO 144/742/115328
see Leeds Mercury - Wednesday 06 January 1904
see Nottingham Evening Post - Wednesday 06 January 1904
see Dundee Evening Post - Tuesday 29 March 1904
see Framlingham Weekly News - Saturday 02 April 1904
see Homicide 1904