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• James Caffyn
  1878

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  James Caffyn was an illiterate labourer who was charged with the murder of Maria Barber at Ryde on the Isle of Wight. They had been living together in a house they shared with her father and his paramour, when, on…
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• James Trickett
  1878

  Location: Hopwood Street, Liverpool

  James Trickett murdered his wife. He stabbed her and threw her down the stairs.
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• TRICKETT, James
  1878

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  Murder of wife; Liverpool
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• John Brooks
  1878

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  13/02/1878 John Brooks Nottinghamshire Nottingham Carolyn Woodhead
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• BROOKS, John
  1878

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  Murder of CAROLINE WOODHEAD;
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• Henry Rowles
  1878

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  01/04/1878 Henry Rowles 26 Oxfordshire Oxford Mary Allen (fiancée)
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• ROWLES, Harry
  1878

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  Murder of sweetheart; Oxford
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• Vincent Walker
  1878

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  15/04/1878 Vincent Walker 48 Yorkshire York Castle Lydia White
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• WALKER, Vincent Knowles
  1878

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  Murder of woman; York
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• Eugene Marie Chantrelle
  1878

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  Eugene was a French born school teacher from Edinburgh who poisoned his wife Elizabeth by inserting opium into her food. He had taken out an insurance policy the previous year for one thousand pounds which included a…
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• Eugene Marie Chantrelle
  1878

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  31/05/1878 Eugene Marie Chantrelle 44 Edinburgh31/05/1878 Wife, Elizabeth
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• Charles Revell
  1878

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  29/07/1878 Charles Revell 25 Essex Chelmsford Wife - Hester
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• REVELL, Charles J.
  1878

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  Murder of wife; Chelmsford
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• Robert Vest
  1878

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  Robert Vest was a ship's steward who was convicted of the murder of William John Wallace, a pilot on the barge 'William Leckie', at Sunderland. The captain of the boat had cautioned Vest for being drunk on duty and…
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• Thomas Cholerton
  1878

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  Thomas Cholerton and Jane Smith had lived together as man and wife until the end of May when she left him because of his ill-treatment of her and went to stay with a family called Lynch. At 7pm on 6th June, Cholerton…
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• Selina Wadge
  1878

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  Selina Wadge
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• WADGE, Selina
  1878

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  Murder of illegitimate child; Bodmin
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• William McDonald
  1878

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  McDonald was a fisherman from St Andrews who was convicted at Perth Court and sentenced to death on 7th September for the murder of his wife, whom he shot dead on 13th June. McDonald had failed in an attempt to take his…
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• William MDonald
  1878

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  07/09/1878 William M'Donald Cupar03/10/1878 Wife, Helen
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• Thomas Smithers
  1878

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  Thirty one year old Thomas Smithers and Amy Judge lived together at Battersea. where on 22nd July he stabbed her to death in a jealous rage. He fainted in the dock at the Old Bailey as sentence was being passed by Mr…
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• Patrick Byrne
  1878

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  12/11/1878 Patrick Byrne 38 Northamptonshire Northampton Qtr. Sgt. Griffiths
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• BYRNE, Patrick John
  1878

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  Murder of two brother sergeants;
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• Joseph Garcia
  1878

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  Garcia, Joseph
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• James MGowan
  1878

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  19/11/1878 James M'Gowan 55 Lancashire Mcr. (Strangeways) Wife
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• James McGowan
  1878

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  Murder of wife; Manchester
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• Henry Gilbert
  1878

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  Gilbert, Henry
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