Age: 28
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 27 Dec 1900
Crime Location: Bankhall Street, Liverpool
Execution Place: Liverpool
Method: hanging
Executioner: James Billington
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
James Joseph Bergin was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Margaret Morrison 24 and sentenced to death.
He shot her on Saturday 27 October 1900 at Bankhall Street, Liverpool.
see National Archives - ASSI 52/50, HO 144/283/A62269
see Western Gazette - Friday 07 December 1900
see Western Times - Wednesday 05 December 1900
see West Somerset Free Press - Saturday 29 December 1900
see Northampton Mercury - Friday 28 December 1900
see Dundee Evening Post - Monday 24 December 1900
see Murder UK
see Homicide 1900