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.
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
