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Horace Robert Jay
1885
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Horace Robert Jay was executed for the murder of Florence Kemp. At Christmas in 1883. Jay (aka Thorpe) met Florence Kemp, then just sixteen, and they immediately fell in love. They lived together until July 1884 when…
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Horace Jay
1885
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13/01/1885 Horace Jay 23 Old Bailey C.C.C. Wandsworth Wife
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Henry Kimberley
1885
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Henry Kimberley and Harriet Stewart lived together for seventeen years until Christmas 1884, when they agreed to separate. They consulted solicitors and it was agreed that she would keep the house while he got twenty…
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LEE, John
1885
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Murder of police inspector SIMMONS;Chelmsford
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James Lee
1885
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18/05/1885 James Lee 45 Essex Chelmsford Inspector Simmons
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Moses Shrimpton
1885
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Shrimpton was first sent to prison for poaching in 1848, and from then on was seldom at liberty for more than a few weeks. On the morning of 28th February 1885, a PC Davies stationed at Beoley, a small rural…
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Henry Alt
1885
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Henry Alt was a German baker who was convicted of the murder of Charles Howard, whom he stabbed to death in a jealous quarrel over a woman. Alt had been paying his attentions to a middle-aged woman and proposed marriage…
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ALT, Henry
1885
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Murder of C.HOWARD; Newgate
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James Turney
1885
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James Turney murdered of Elizabeth Williamson 32.
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BOULTON, Thomas
1885
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Murder of niece; Stafford
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Thomas Boulton
1885
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17/08/1885 Thomas Boulton 47 Staffordshire Stafford Murder niece
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Henry Norman
1885
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Henry Norman was a thirty one year old painter who was convicted of the murder of his adulterous wife. Norman was jealous of the landlord where he and his wife lived and after discovering she had been unfaithful he…
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HILL, John
1885
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Murder of ANN DICKSON;
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WILLIAMS, John
1885
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Murder of ANN DICKSON;
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John Hill
1885
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23/11/1885 John Hill & John Williams Herefordshire Hereford Ann Dixon
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John Williams
1885
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23/11/1885 John Hill & John Williams Herefordshire Hereford Ann Dixon
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Robert Goodale
1885
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Robert GOODALE
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Daniel Minahan
1885
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1885
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THOMAS, George
1885
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Murder of woman; Liverpool
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George Thomas
1885
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09/12/1885 George Thomas Lancashire Liverpool Wife
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