Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 30 Apr 1855
Crime Location: 5 Foley Place
Execution Place: Newgate
Method: hanging
Executioner: Calcraft
Source: http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
Luigi Buranelli was convicted of the murder of Joseph Latham otherwise known as Lambert.
He went to his house in Foley Place and shouted 'Mr Lambert, Mr Lambert' and then shot him with a pistol in the neck while he was asleep. Adfter he shot his wife in the arm and neck but she survived.
Another lodger said that she was awoken a little after 9am by a noise and then a rattling at her door. She called out 2-3 times who was there but there was no answer and then she heard Luigi Buranelli call out 'It is I. Luigi Buranelli.' The woman then called out 'Mr Lambert' and Luigi Buranelli said 'He is dead, and I am his assassin'.
Luigi Buranelli had been living at the house before although he was not a lodger, and was allowed to live there because he was poor but he had been asked to leave 10 days earlier.
