British Executions

Samuel Yarham

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 4 Apr 1846

Crime Location: Great Yarmouth

Execution Place: Norwich

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/1837.html

Samuel Yarham was convicted of the murder of Harriet Candler who he was said to have beaten to death with a hammer in her home on 18 November 1844.

Harriet Candler kept a chandler's shop and had recently received a legacy of £150 of which she made no secret of.

see National Archives - ASSI 36/5

see Yarmouth Museum

see BBC

see Carlisle Journal - Saturday 19 April 1845

see Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser - Saturday 03 November 1860