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JONES, Frederic
1872
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Murder of EMILY GARDNER through jealosy; Gloucester
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Frederick Jones
1872
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On 10 December 1871, Emily Gardner was walking home with her elder sister Alice from a large house in Cheltenham where Alice was employed. They were accompanied by a young baker, Frederick Jones, who had been courting…
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Edward Roberts
1872
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18/03/1872 Edward Roberts 35 Oxfordshire Oxford Ann Merrick
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ROBERTS, Edward
1872
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Murder of ANN MERRICK, who refused to marry him; Oxford
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Frederick William Horry
1872
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01/04/1872 Frederick William Horry 28 Lincolnshire Lincoln Wife, Jane Marwood
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William Frederick Horry
1872
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Horry, William Frederick
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John Kewish
1872
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John Kewish was a middle-aged, self confessed sheep rustler who was convicted of the murder of his father at Sulby on the Isle of Man. On 28th March, John Kewish senior was found dead in a field with four chest wounds…
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Charles Holmes
1872
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1872
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Thomas Moore
1872
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Thomas Moore was a fifty two year old former soldier who had served with distinction in the Crimean and Indian wars, where he had earned medals for bravery, strangled his wife after a quarrel at Ashford on 1st June. The…
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James Tooth
1872
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Barracks, Chatham
James Tooth murdered George Stock 17 at Marine Barracks, Chatham whose throat he cut. George Stock was a drummer boy and they were both in the 33d Company of the Chatham Division of the Royal Marines.
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Francis Bradford
1872
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On 31 May, Daniel Donahoe reported Bradford to his superiors for causing a disturbance, and as a result Bradford was reprimanded. Later that night as Donahoe slept in the barrack room, Bradford crept in and butchered…
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Christopher Edwards
1872
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Christopher Edwards was a thirty four year old locksmith who brutally murdered his wife, Rosanna, at Willenhall on 20th April 1872. The crime was carried out in a fit of drunken jealousy and with no compassion he…
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LACE, William
1872
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Murder of wife; Taunton
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William Lace
1872
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26/08/1872 William Lace 43 Somerset Taunton Wife
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August Elliott
1872
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09/12/1872 August Elliott 31 London & Middlesex Newgate Ellen Moore (prostitute)
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Augustus Eliiot
1872
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Augustus Eliiot was hanged on the 9th December 1872 by William Calcraft at Newgate for the murder of twenty two year old Ellen Moore. On l4 September, Ellen Moore a 22 year old prostitute, was visited at her room in…
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Michael Kennedy
1872
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Murder of wife; Manchester
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