Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 22 Dec 1896
Execution Place: York
Method: hanging
Executioner: James Billington
Source: http://greggmanning.scstamps.co.uk/Murder1/docc.htm
Carlsen was a Swedish sailor convicted of the murder of Juliet Wood. with whom he lived at York. At 8pm on 23rd July. Carlsen went to their landlord and confessed that he had killed his sweetheart. She was found dead in bed with her throat cut. Carlsen was drunk when arrested. He was tried and convicted and hanged by James Billington. Sentence was carried out on the forty three year old sailor on the 22nd December 1896 in York.
