Age: 31
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 9 Jul 1901
Crime Location: British Barque Lorton, High Seas
Execution Place: Bodmin
Method: hanging
Executioner: James Billington
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Valeri Giovanni was convicted of the murder of Victor Baileff and sentenced to death.
They were crew members on the British barque Lorton, a merchant ship out of Liverpool. The ship had been to Hamburg and then to Portland, Oregon. It then went to South Africa, and then Australia and then to South America. The barque had had a crew of 21 and had left Hamburg for Portland on 1 April 1900.
see National Archives - HO 144/570/A62691
see Homicide 1901
