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Stephen Gambrill
1879
Crime:
murder
Location:
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Gambrill, Stephen
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Enoch Whiston
1879
Crime:
murder
Location:
Dudley
Enoch Whiston murdered Alfred Meredith attacked, shot in the face and robbed whilst Alfred Meredith was on his way back from the back to his place of work at a Dudley ironworks where he was a wages clerk. Alfred…
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WHISTON, Enoch
1879
Crime:
unknown
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Murder of ALFRED MEREDITH;
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William MGuiness
1879
Crime:
murder
Location:
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11/02/1879 William M'Guiness 40 Lancashire Lancaster Castle Wife
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McGUINESS, William
1879
Crime:
murder
Location:
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On Friday 19th October, McGuiness returned to his home at Barrow from his job as a labourer on a building site at Carnforth railway station. He had made a threat to a workmate that he'd commit murder before leaving…
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Charles Peace
1879
Crime:
murder
Location:
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Charles Peace murdered Nicholas Cock a policeman in Manchester and Albert Dyson in Banner Cross Terrace, Sheffield.
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James Simms
1879
Crime:
murder
Location:
White Hart, Shadwell
James Simms was convicted of the murder of Lucy Graham and sentenced to death.
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Edward Smart
1879
Crime:
murder
Location:
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Edward Smart was convicted of the murder of Lucy Derrick and sentenced to death.
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William Cooper
1879
Crime:
murder
Location:
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William Cooper was convicted of the murder of Ellen Mather and sentenced to death.
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Catherine Churchill
1879
Crime:
murder
Location:
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26/05/1879 Catherine Churchill 55 Somerset Taunton Husband
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CHURCHILL, Catherine
1879
Crime:
unknown
Location:
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Murder of husband; Taunton
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John Darcy
1879
Crime:
murder
Location:
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D'Arcy was a clock cleaner who was convicted at York Assizes on 7th May, for the murder of William Metcalfe an old man of eighty five, a gamekeeper from Oulton, near Leeds. On 4th March two women heard a cry of murder…
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Thomas Johnson
1879
Crime:
murder
Location:
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On 23 March, Thomas Johnson and twenty one year old Eliza Parton, visited a house of ill repute at Liverpool and after spending an hour or so drinking, they went upstairs to a room. Soon afterwards Eliza came downstairs…
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WEBSTER, Catherine
1879
Crime:
unknown
Location:
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Murder of Mrs.JULIA MARTHA THOMAS;
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Katherine Webster
1879
Crime:
murder
Location:
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convicted of the murder of Mrs Julia Martha Thomas.
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Annie Tooke
1879
Crime:
murder
Location:
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11/08/1879 Annie Tooke 40 Devon Exeter Reginald Hyde (6 mths.)
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TOOK, Annie
1879
Crime:
unknown
Location:
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Murder of nurse-child;
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James Dilley
1879
Crime:
murder
Location:
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James Dilley was a forty one year old picture framer of Shefford, Bedfordshire, convicted along with his paramour Mary Rainbow who was a twenty nine year old domestic worker, for the murder of their three month old…
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John Ralph
1879
Crime:
murder
Location:
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26/08/1879 John Ralph 28 Warwickshire Warwick Sarah Vernon
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RALPH, John
1879
Crime:
unknown
Location:
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Murder of SARAH VERNON;
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Kate Webster
1879
Crime:
murder
Location:
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Kate Webster killed Julia Martha Thomas to whom she had been employed as a maid at 2 Vine Cottages, Park Road, Richmond. After killing her she dismembered her body.
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Henry Bedingfield
1879
Crime:
murder
Location:
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03/12/1879 Henry Bedingfield 46 Suffolk Ipswich Eliza Rodden
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BEDINFIELD, Henry
1879
Crime:
unknown
Location:
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Murder of ELIZA RUDD;
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