Age: 52
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 12 Dec 1900
Crime Location: Seaham Harbour, Sunderland
Execution Place: Durham
Method: hanging
Executioner: James Billington
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
John Bowes was convicted of the murder of his wife Isabella Bowes 50 and sentenced to death.
He battered her to death with a railway sleeper at Seaham Harbour, near Sunderland on 8 September 1900.
see National Archives - HO 144/282/A62252
see Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough - Monday 10 September 1900
see Murder UK
see Homicide 1900
