Ernest Hutchinson

Ernest Hutchinson was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Hannah Maria Whiteley 30 and sentenced to death.

He stabbed her to death at 20 Great Albion Street, Halifax on 24 December 1908.

Hannah Whiteley was a married woman but she was living separately to her husband who lived in Barrow-in-Furness. She had left her husband five years earlier. They had been living together for five months with a 5-year-old daughter.

On the night of the murder quarrelling was heard and the following day neighbours saw blood seeping out from behind the door. They entered the house to find her dead against the door having been stabbed with a butcher’s knife.