Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 23 Mar 1869
Execution Place: Durham
Method: hanging
Executioner: William Calcraft
Source: http://greggmanning.scstamps.co.uk/Murder1/docm.htm
On 30 January 1869, Philip Trainer, an Irish labourer, was shot dead outside a Darlington public house. He had, until a few days earlier, been a member of a secret Fenian society but left the group after disassociating himself from their subversive activities. Shortly before midnight twenty three year old John McConville, another Irish labourer, got into an argument with Trainer and challenged him to a fight outside the pub. As a crowd streamed out, McConville fired into it, fatally wounding Trainer. He was convicted of murder and on the 23 March 1869 was hanged in Durham by William Calcraft.
