Age: 42
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 9 Dec 1894
Execution Place: Leicester
Method: unknown
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20070624062456/http://www.fred.net/jefalvey/execute.h
John William Newell was a former Royal Marine who was sentenced to death on 21st November for the murder of his wife, Isabella, at Loughborough. On 21st August, they had a quarrel during which he accused her of being unfaithful and in a rage he beat her to death with a coal hammer. After he was arrested, he declared: 'I'll go to the gallows in good heart if I know she is dead.' He was hanged by James Billington in Leicester on the 10th December 1894 at the age of forty two.
