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John McGrave
1875
Crime:
murder
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04/01/1875 John McGrave & 20 Lancashire Liverpool Richard Morgan (Corner Men gang) " Michael Mullen 17 " " "
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Michael Mullen
1875
Crime:
murder
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04/01/1875 John McGrave & 20 Lancashire Liverpool Richard Morgan (Corner Men gang) " Michael Mullen 17 " " "
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William Worthington
1875
Crime:
murder
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04/01/1875 William Worthington 33 Lancashire Liverpool Wife
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James Cranwell
1875
Crime:
murder
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Fifty nine year old James Cranwell was a shoemaker who rented a room in a house on Great James Street, Lisson Grove. On Saturday 17th October 1874, he invited his girlfriend, Emma Bellamy who was almost half his age at…
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MULLEN, Michael
1875
Crime:
unknown
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Murder ? ; Liverpool
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McCRAVE, John
1875
Crime:
unknown
Location:
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Murder ? ; Liverpool
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WORTHINGTON, William
1875
Crime:
unknown
Location:
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Murder ? ; Liverpool
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Richard Coates
1875
Crime:
murder
Location:
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A soldier sentenced to death at Essex Assizes on 8th March for the murder at Purfleet of a young girl, Alice Boughen, whom he beat to death after attempting to violate her. He killed the child in a school closet then…
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John Morgan
1875
Crime:
murder
Location:
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Morgan was a nineteen year old bandsman in the 82nd Regiment who was convicted at Maidstone Assizes, of the murder of John Foulson on 6th March. The two soldiers were in the same regiment stationed at Shornecliffe camp,…
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John Stanton
1875
Crime:
murder
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Stanton had been married just six months when he got into a quarrel with his uncle, Thomas Nield, in a Stafford public house. After finishing his drink he went home, returned with a shoemaker's knife, and fatally…
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Alfred Heap
1875
Crime:
murder
Location:
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19/04/1875 Alfred Heap Lancashire Liverpool Margaret McKivert (abortion)
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HEAP, Alfred T.
1875
Crime:
unknown
Location:
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Quack, Murder of MARGARET McKIVETT;Liverpool
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William Hale (Hole)
1875
Crime:
murder
Location:
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1875
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Jeremiah Corkery
1875
Crime:
murder
Location:
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On 7th March, PC Lines and PC Fletcher called into a Birmingham public house and arrested a man for burglary. As they took the man away, a group of his friends, led by Corkery, began taunting the officers and as they…
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William MHugh
1875
Crime:
murder
Location:
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02/08/1875 William M'Hugh Durham Durham Thomas Mooney
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Michael Gillingham
1875
Crime:
murder
Location:
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02/08/1875 Michael Gillingham 22 " " John Kilcran
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Elizabeth Pearson
1875
Crime:
murder
Location:
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02/08/1875 Elizabeth Pearson 28 James Watson, uncle
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William McHugh
1875
Crime:
murder
Location:
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William McHugh was sentenced to death at Durham Assizes on 13th July for the murder of Thomas Mooney at Barnard Castle. Early on the morning of 11th April, a witness saw McHugh and another man, William Gallagher,…
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Michael Gillingham
1875
Crime:
murder
Location:
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Gillingham, Michael
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PEARSON, ? woman
1875
Crime:
unknown
Location:
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Murder; Durham
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Elizabeth Pearson
1875
Crime:
murder
Location:
Gainford, Darlington
02/08/1875 Elizabeth Pearson 28 James Watson, uncle
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Peter Blanchard
1875
Crime:
unknown
Location:
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Murder of LOUISA HODGSON
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LEBRUN, Philip
1875
Crime:
unknown
Location:
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Murder of sister; Jersey
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William MCullogh
1875
Crime:
murder
Location:
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16/08/1875 William M'Cullogh 36 Lancashire Lancaster Castle William Watson lodger
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William McCullough
1875
Crime:
murder
Location:
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Thirty six year old McCullough was an engine fitter, and he and his wife shared a house with William Watson who was sixty two and a woman who acted as his wife. On 29th March, McCullough had come home drunk and asked…
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Mark Fiddler
1875
Crime:
murder
Location:
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Fiddler, an unemployed spinner, and his wife Dorothy (22). quarrelled often and as a result she left him. He sold their house and its contents and proceeded to fritter away the money on drink before calling at his…
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William Baker
1875
Crime:
murder
Location:
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On 10th July, Baker, the landlord of a Liverpool public house called The Railway Vaults, was drinking in another local pub with a group of friends. At closing time, they headed for one of the illegal drinking dens that…
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Edward Cooper
1875
Crime:
murder
Location:
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Sailors Edward Cooper and Edward Jones were both serving aboard the British ship 'Coalbeck' which had left Liverpool on 23rd January bound for the Chilean port of Valparaiso. All was well until some ill feeling…
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Patrick Docherty
1875
Crime:
murder
Location:
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Twenty one year old Docherty was convicted of the murder of John Miller, a miner, by striking him over the head with a hoe, near Rutherglen Bridge. On 1st May, three men and a woman were dancing on the bridge. They had…
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Patrick Docherty
1875
Crime:
unknown
Location:
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14/09/1875 Patrick Docherty 19 Glasgow5/10/1875 John Miller
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David Wardlaw
1875
Crime:
unknown
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28/09/1875 David Wardlaw Dumbarton 19/10/1875 Wife, Mary
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Henry Wainwright
1875
Crime:
unknown
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Henry met 20-year-old milliner's apprentice Harriet Louisa Lane in 1871 and installed her as his mistress in a house in Mile End. Wainwright was a brush-manufacturer with a shop, and wife, at 215 Whitechapel Road. Over…
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William Smedley
1875
Crime:
murder
Location:
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Fifty year old Smedley was a Sheffield knife-maker, had been widowed several years earlier but had started living with an Elizabeth Firth as man and wife. At the end of August she told him she no longer wished to share…
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John William Anderson
1875
Crime:
murder
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In August, John William Anderson, a young clerk, gave up work and took to drink. and as a result relations with his wife became strained. They argued constantly and she threatened to leave him unless he got a job. On…
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John Anderson
1875
Crime:
murder
Location:
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22/12/1875 John Anderson Northumberland Newcastle Wife
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ANDERSON, John William
1875
Crime:
unknown
Location:
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Murder of wife;
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Richard Charlton
1875
Crime:
murder
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Charlton was a farm labourer sentenced to death by Mr Justice Denman at Durham Assizes for the murder of his wife. After the birth of their first child in the spring of 1875, Sarah Charlton left her husband because she…
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