Age: 36
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 3 Jan 1899
Crime Location: 82 William Street, Hampstead Road, Regents Park
Execution Place: Newgate
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/1837.html
Johann Schnieder was convicted of the murder of 19-year-old Conrad Berndt and sentenced to death.
They had a quarrel and Johann Schnieder hit Conrad Berndt over the head with a chopper and then put his body in a heated baker's oven. Johann Schnieder also attacked the baker who owned the bakehouse when he came down early in the morning.
see National Archives - CRIM 1/54/5, HO 144/275/A60672
see Monmouthshire Beacon - Friday 06 January 1899
see St. Pancras Gazette - Saturday 07 January 1899
see The People - Sunday 13 November 1898
see Weekly Dispatch (London) - Sunday 18 December 1898
see Dungannon News - Thursday 22 December 1898
see Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 04 January 1899
see Penny Illustrated Paper - Saturday 19 November 1898
see Weekly Dispatch (London) - Sunday 20 November 1898
see National Library of Scotland
see Homicide 1899
