Age: 40
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 6 Dec 1905
Crime Location: 94 Newgate Street, Newcastle
Execution Place: Newcastle
Method: hanging
Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Henry Perkins was convicted of the murder of Patrick Durkin 29 and sentenced to death.
He stabbed him at a lodging house where they lodged together at 94 Newgate Street, Newcastle on 13 July 1905. Patrick Durkin was taken to the Royal Infirmary where he later died.
Death was stated to have been due to syncope from pericarditis and blood poisoning resulting from his wounds. Whilst in hospital Patrick Durkin was never in a condition to give a clear account of what had happened.
Henry Perkins had been a cobbler.
see National Archives - HO 144/804/134436
see Dundee Courier - Friday 17 November 1905
see Shields Daily News - Thursday 27 July 1905
see Lancashire Evening Post - Friday 17 November 1905
see Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper - Sunday 19 November 1905
see Homicide 1905
