Age: 46
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 7 Dec 1909
Crime Location: 4 Kingston Place, Porter Street, Hull
Execution Place: Hull
Method: hanging
Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4143711
John Freeman murdered his sister-in-law Florence Lily Freeman 30 and was sentenced to death.
He stabbed her to death at 4 Kingston Place, Porter Street, Hull on 28 August 1909.
John Freeman, Florence Freeman and his brother, who were all described in a police report as appearing to be drunken people of the lowest class all lived together at 4 Kingston Place in Porter Street.
It was said that John Freeman threatened Florence Freeman with a knife in February 1908 and a policeman was called who took John Freeman to the police station and on the way he was heard to say 'I will do for them both'.
see National Archives - HO 144/538/185889
see Homicide 1909
