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