Age: 23
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 11 Jun 1930
Crime Location: Dartford Heath, Kent
Execution Place: Wandsworth
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Albert Marjeram murdered Edith May Parker 23 who he stabbed at Dartford Heath, Kent on 11 April 1930.
Edith Parker and her sister had been gone out around 10am on the Friday morning 11 April 1930 for a stroll in the warm sunshine across Dartford Heath. They were walking along a narrow path between the old drinking fountain at Heath Lane Corner and the Dartford Golf Club house. The sister said that as they walked Albert Marjeram, who she did not know, jumped out of a clump of bushes and stabbed Edith Parker and then ran off. after being stabbed Edith Parker staggered about 150 yards towards Heath Lane Corner and then collapsed near hawthorn tree.
She was found injured at 10.15am on a footpath near Heath Lane and Heath Close Road. She had no hat on and one shoe was off and had blood on the back of her overcoat from the stab wound. She died shortly after at 10.35am just before the ambulance arrived.
Further along the footpath the later found the knife after Albert Marjeram showed them where it was. When they found it Albert Marjeram said 'That is the knife. It has two or three gaps in it'..
