First Published: March 2022
Contains 88 cases including the case of Reginald Haslam who strangled his girlfriend, Luigi Colsi who shot a youth that was attacking him, Frederick Brooks who strangled a 12-year-old girl in Efford, Plymouth, Beryl Lingard who travelled from Manchester to Liverpool to throw her half-caste child into the Mersey, Georges Codere who stole $1,375 and murdered a sergeant in the 9th Canadian Mounted Rifles and Albert Gerrish who knocked a man off his bicycle.
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A list of homicide convictions 1916.
Contains 88 cases including the case of Reginald Haslam who strangled his girlfriend, Luigi Colsi who shot a youth that was attacking him, Frederick Brooks who strangled a 12-year-old girl in Efford, Plymouth, Beryl Lingard who travelled from Manchester to Liverpool to throw her half-caste child into the Mersey, Georges Codere who stole $1,375 and murdered a sergeant in the 9th Canadian Mounted Rifles and Albert Gerrish who knocked a man off his bicycle.
Contains all known homicide convictions from England, Scotland and Wales in 1916.
A fantastic resource for people that need a categorical reference for all homicide convictions from 1916.
Resourced from old newspapers, court files, police files and other varied sources.
The most authoritative resource for homicide convictions from 1916 in the UK on the market.
Cases include:
Joseph Deans - Grey Horse Public House, Howard Street, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland: Joseph Deans murdered his girlfriend Catherine Convery 48 who he battered to death at the Grey Horse public house in Howard Street, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland on 7 October 1916. Joseph Deans had been a miner. In 1897 he was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment for assaulting a police officer. After his release he later went to South Africa where he worked as a gold miner for 17 years, returning to England in 1913 with sufficient means to enable him to live without working.
James Howarth Hargreaves - 9 Orange Street, Ashton-under-Lyne: James Howarth Hargreaves was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Caroline McGhee 36 and sentenced to death. He battered her to death at 9 Orange Street, Ashton-under-Lyne on 9 August 1916.
George Sydney Miller - London: George Sydney Miller was convicted of the manslaughter of Herbert Jones. He struck him outside a pub.
Frederick Brooks - Efford, Plymouth, Devon: Frederick Brooks was convicted of the murder of Alice Clara Gregory 12 and sentenced to death. He strangled her in Efford, Plymouth on 19 June 1916.
John Howley - Witley Camp, Waverley, Surrey: John Howley was convicted of the manslaughter of Thomas Hughes. They had both been privates in the same regiment at Witley Camp.
Henry William Seale - The Piggeries, Lewis Road, Mitcham: Henry William Seale was convicted of the manslaughter of Edward Ede. He killed him on 5 November 1916 whilst he and his brother were removing him and some other men from a place called the Piggeries where they had been gambling.
Clara Cunningham - Cooper Street, Oldham: Clara Cunningham was convicted of the manslaughter of Alice McLaren. She performed an illegal operation on her.
Alice Barber - Military Canal, Hythe, Kent: Alice Barber was convicted of the murder of her 18-month-old infant child George Barber. She drowned him on 6 September 1916 in the Military Canal at Hythe.
Ada Croft - 67 Upperthorpe Road, Sheffield: Ada Croft was convicted of the manslaughter of Alice Colbridge. She performed an illegal operation on her.
Lilian Banks - 7 Garbutts Court, Stonebridgegate, Ripon: Lilian Banks was convicted of the manslaughter of her newly-born child. She had lived at 7 Garbutt's Court in Stonebridgegate, Ripon and had had three children previously.
Sydney Danby - Greenhill Lodge, New Wortley, Leeds: Sydney Danby strangled Jane Wright 64. Sydney Danby had had a fit at his house and his mother sent for Jane Wright.
Richard Cunningham - 23 Varleys Yard, Chapel Hill, Huddersfield: Richard Cunningham was convicted of the manslaughter of his wife Sarah Hannah Cunningham 35. He strangled her at their home at 23 Varleys Yard, Chapel Hill, Huddersfield. She was found there late on the Monday night, 18 September 1916.
Leonora Woods - Mary Street, Blackburn, Lancashire: Leonora Woods was convicted of the murder of her child and sentenced to death but reprieved. She had been a mill hand and had lived in Mary Street, Blackburn.
Robert Cooper - 60 Stamshaw Road, Portsmouth: Robert Cooper was convicted of the manslaughter of Mary Jane Delaney 48. He strangled her with a pillow at 60 Stamshaw Road in Portsmouth.
James Stevenson and John McGrory - Langholm : James Stevenson and John McGrory were convicted of the culpable homicide of Lawrence Niven. They threw him into the River Esk near Skipper's Pool on 23 September 1916.
Hannah Wilson - Brook Pond, Washington, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Hannah Wilson was convicted of the murder of her illegitimate two-year-old child Matthew Wilson and sentenced to death but her sentence was commuted. The child's body was found in Brook Pond, Washington near Newcastle in a sack with a length of string tied round its neck. The pond was near a cork works and Washington Station. The sack was found on 1 September 1916.
James Smith - Arford, Headley, Hampshire: James Smith was convicted of the manslaughter of his wife Emma Smith. He shot her with a revolver at Arford, Headley on 1 September 1916 after she went to keep house for a neighbour and refused to return.
William Rutter - 19 Back Harrison Street, Ayres Quay, Sunderland: William Rutter was found guilty but insane for the murder of his wife Ethel Rutter 32. He killed her on 3 September 1916.
Ellen Elizabeth Carline - 3 Halls Row, Barker Lane, Brampton: Ellen Elizabeth Carline was convicted of the manslaughter of her four-month-old child Wilfred Carline. When she died Wilfred Carline was described as being nothing but bones.
William Allen - Berry Street, Bootle: William Allen was convicted of the manslaughter of John Fletcher. William Allen had been a cripple. He had lived with his family in Berry Street, Bootle and his family had had a long running feud with John Fletcher's family.
Patrick Mackin - 6 Menai Street, Liverpool: Patrick Mackin was convicted of the manslaughter of his mother Mary Mackin 56. He cut her throat after a drunken quarrel.
David Davies - Blaenrhysglog Farm, Glamorganshire: David Davies was found guilty of the murder of Glyn Jones, but insane. David Davies was the son of a farmer. The farmer had been very unwell and his wife sent for a doctor but he didn't turn up and so on 15 July 1916 she sent for Dr Glyn Jones.
Chand Hosine - Vittoria Dock, Birkenhead: Chand Hosine was convicted of the manslaughter of Sheik Ebram. Chand Hosine was also known as Sheik Ghand.
Charles Arthur Manning Clark - 81 Stanley Street, Lowestoft, Suffolk: Charles Arthur Manning Clark was on trial for the murder of his son Joseph Charles Clark but was found unfit to plead. Charles Clark had been a shipwright.
Henrietta Ellen Smith - 2 Station Street, Boston, Lincolnshire: Henrietta Smith was found responsible for the murder of Charles Smith 12 but insane. Henrietta Smith killed Charles Smith on 6 July 1916. Charles Smith was found upstairs on a bed with his head beaten in and brains left protruding. He had been beaten to death with a poker that was found downstairs. A knife had also been used.
Philip George Hill - Burnham, Taunton, Somerset: Philip George Hill was found guilty but insane for the murder of Daniel Lawrence 81. They had been neighbours and were both farmers. There had only been a road separating their two gardens.
Thomas Hall - Ashby Pastures, Pasture Lane, Ashby Folville, Gaddesby, Leicestershire: Thomas Hall was on trial for the murder of Mary Alice Ogden 43 but he was found unfit to plead. He had been a framework knitter and a tramp.
George James Hatherall - Malksham Without, Wiltshire: George James Hatherall was on trial for the murder of John William Spackman 17 but was found unfit to plead. George Hatherall had been a labourer. John Spackman had been learning farming from his uncle whose farm, Queenfield Farm, he had been working at for two years. John Spackman was also known as Peter.
James OHara - 122 Sister Street, Calton, Glasgow : James O'Hara was on trial for the murder of three people but was found to be insane. The three people killed were:
Elizabeth Owen - Portmadoc, Wales: Elizabeth Owen was convicted of the manslaughter of her newly-born child. She had been the daughter of a small farmer in Portmadoc district.
Florence Heath - Norman Road, Leytonstone: Florence Heath was convicted of the manslaughter of her 10-month-old daughter Elsie Winifred Heath. She was convicted of manslaughter through neglect. Her defence urged mitigation on the grounds that Florence Heath had not been in a normal state of health at the time and that her child had been born a cripple. The defence said that Elsie Heath had been prematurely born on account of Florence Heath being nervous about a Zeppelin raid. He said that Elsie Heath had come into the world a cripple and had been unable to assimilate food.
William Crosskill - Rosary Road, Norwich: William Crosskill was on trial for the murder of Charles Henry Thompson but was found unfit to plead. He stabbed him on 20 July 1916.
Bessie Butler - Putney Pier, River Thames, Fulham: Bessie Butler was convicted of the manslaughter of her 9-month-old child John Stanley Butler. Bessie Butler had worked in a laundry in Fulham but had money problems and the body of John Butler was later found in the River Thames near Putney Pier on 11 July 1916.
Henry Burdee - Bridge Road, Hammersmith, London: Henry Burdee was convicted of the manslaughter of Mary Beckerson. Mary Beckerson had been suffering from rheumatism and Henry Burdee had ordered her to take no food for several days and only to drink a small quantity of water every hour along with rubbing of the chest and hypnotic passes as a cure.
Arthur Edmond Norman - Bermondsey, London: Arthur Edmond Norman was tried for the murder of his wife Ellen Sarah Norman 31 but found unfit to plead. He cut her throat with a razor.
Daniel Sullivan - 20 Cwm Canol Street, Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil: Daniel Sullivan murdered his wife Catherine Sullivan 35 who he battered to death on 8 July 1916. Daniel Sullivan had been a coke ovens labourer at Dowlais and had married Catherine Sullivan a few years earlier. She had been a widow with two children and he had two children by her.
Luigi Colsi - Ladywell Street, Glasgow: Luigi Colsi was convicted of the culpable homicide of James Irvine 17. He shot him in Ladywell Street, Glasgow on 4 August 1916.
William Allen Butler - 2 Bath Terrace, Chequers Walk, Birmingham: William Butler murdered Florence Beatrice Butler 29 who he stabbed to death at 2 Bath Terrace, Chequers Walk, Birmingham on 20 May 1916. They had been dating but William Butler had started to beat Florence Butler and William Butler who was lodging in the house was asked to leave. When alone with Florence Butler he suddenly pulled out a knife and stabbed her in the heart. She ran off to a neighbour’s house but died fifteen minutes later.
Henry Percy Jelly - 174 High Street, Homerton, East London: Henry Percy Jelly was convicted of the manslaughter of Caroline Elizabeth March 38 who he performed an illegal operation on. Henry Jelly was described as 'The Threepenny Doctor' in Hackney and the East London. His wife gave evidence at the trial stating that no operation took place.
Charles Balchin - 6 Bassant Road, Plumstead: Charles Balchin was convicted of the manslaughter of Frances Elizabeth Cape. They had been living together. He had struck her twice in the neck. However, at the time she had been suffering from an aneurism of the brain and the blows caused her death.
James Hirst - Carlton Lane, Royston, Yorkshire: James Hirst was convicted of the manslaughter of Charles Brearley 50. Charles Brearley had been with his wife at the top of Church Street in Royston on 30 May 1916 when a bus came along which Charles Brearley called out to stop, but it carried on and didn't stop.
Edmund Heskin - West Street, Leeds: Edmund Heskin was convicted of the manslaughter of Blanche Amy Pantry. He had been a medical practitioner and it was said that he had caused her death through criminal negligence after he failed to stay with Blanche Pantry after he had been called out to see her during child birth. She died on 1 April 1916.
Richard John Bell - Wirral Showground, Bebington, Chester: Richard John Bell was convicted of the manslaughter of Florina Clare James. He cut his throat during a quarrel at their billets.
Edith Thornton - Clifton Park, Rotherham: Edith Thornton was convicted of the attempted murder of her three children. She attempted to drown them in a lake at Clifton Park on Tuesday 16 May 1916. She had lived at 77 Selbourne Street in Rotherham.
Charles Wardlow Farrow - 86 Chirndale Street, Walton, Merseyside: Charles Wardlow Farrow was convicted of the murder of Jane Bruce and sentenced to death but reprieved. The court heard that Jane Bruce had been a drunkard and that Charles Farrow had decided to end it all by poisoning her, his daughter and himself.
Thomas Quinn - 14 Margaret Street, Glasgow : Thomas Quinn was convicted of the culpable homicide of his wife Ann Quinn. He assaulted her between 24 and 25 May 1916 at a house at 14 Margaret Street in Glasgow by striking her with a poker and a saucepan.
George Lister - Alphonse Conseil, Graving Dock, River Tyne: George Lister was found guilty but insane for the murder of Diabel Gueye. He shot him in the head on 21 June 1916.
Sidney Stuart Lockhart - Richmond Road, Worthing: Sidney Stuart Lockhart was on trial for the murder of his father Robert Lockhart but found to be unfir to plead. He beat him over the head as he lay in bed at his house in Richmond Road, Worthing between 12 and 15 April 1916.
Paolo Roma - Newbottle, Fence Houses, Houghton le Spring, Sunderland: Paolo Roma was convicted of the attempted murder of a 17-year-old girl. He had been an Italian confectioner and had been in England for 20 years. He had been married previously when he was in Italy.
Dennis Van Hanwaert - Upper Bedford Place, London: Dennis Van Hanwaert was on trial for the murder of his mother but was found to be insane. He stabbed her at Upper Bedford Place, London.
Albert Edward Gerrish - Havant Road, Havant, Hampshire: Albert Edward Gerrish was convicted of the manslaughter of Edward Albert Till. Albert Gerrish had been driving along the Havant road in a motor van under the influence of alcohol when he knocked Edward Till off his bicycle killing him on 9 February 1916.
Jeannie Soffen Larsson - South Bank House, Bonnington Road, Peebles: Jeannie Soffen Larsson was convicted of the culpable homicide of her mistress Elizabeth Jane Fergusson 45 who she beat to death with an axe. She killed her on Thursday 23 March 1916. Her body was discovered by her 22-year-old son who had been a sergeant in the Lanarkshire Yeomanry who at the time had been given leave to return to his work as a Road Surveyor in the county for a few weeks. It was heard that when he had gone home for dinner on the Thursday as usual that he had asked Jeannie Larsson where Elizabeth Fergusson was and that Jeannie Larsson had told him that she had received a wire calling her away to Glasgow.
Ernest Ambrose Middleton - 27 Wollaton Street, Nottingham: Ernest Ambrose Middleton was convicted of the manslaughter of Ida Sinclair 27 on whom he carried out an illegal operation to get shut of a child. He traded under the name of the Dr De Boi Company from a shop on Wollaton Street, Nottingham where he offered medical services. He had a consulting room downstairs and upstairs he had a waiting room and a room with a sofa and various medical appliances.
Edith Mary Houston - Beckenham, Kent: Edith Mary Houston was convicted of attempted murder but found to be insane. She tried to kill her 7-year-old daughter with veronal on 4 April 1916. They were found in Edith Houston's bedroom by their servant, the child grasped in her arms.
Anna Maria Wilmington - Housteins Farm, Gitthsham, Honiton, Devon: Anna Maria Wilmington was on trial for the murder of her grandson William Franks but found to be insane.
Thomas Lynch - 111 and 113 Derby Road, Bootle: Thomas Lynch was convicted for the manslaughter of Edward Owen Tudor. They had been at a lodging house at 111 and 113 Derby Road, Bootle on 20 May with a number of other people drinking and singing when Thomas Lynch and Edward Tudor started fighting in the kitchen. The fight was broken up and Thomas Lynch thrown out into the back yard but a few moments later he came back and then Edward Tudor was found sitting down with a wound to his throat.
Nellie Elizabeth Saunders - Lower Mill End, West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire: Nellie Saunders was convicted of the manslaughter of her newly-born child. She killed it on 19 April 1916.
Harriet Jones - Territorial Drill Hall House, Holywell, Flintshire, Wales: Harriet Jones was convicted of the murder of her 4-year-old son Edward Watkins Jones but was found to have not been responsible for her actions. Harriet Jones had been married about four years earlier to a sailor, however at the time of the murder he didn't live with her. Harriet Jones had been living with her father but later went to live with a woman in Halkyn Street, Holywell after she was turned out of her father’s house in the early part of January 1916.
John Elias - Tyddyn Bach, Llanfacthlu, Anglesey: John Elias was convicted of the murder of his son John Elias 46. He was sentenced to death but reprieved. He shot him. John Elias's son was found shot through the head on Saturday 13 May 1916 with a rifle lying some distance from his body.
Mabel Mary Kelsey - Dunboyne Villas, Elm Road, Clewer, Windsor: Mabel Kelsey was convicted of the manslaughter of her newly-born female child. The child’s body was found in a back garden at Dunboyne Villas, Elm Road, in Clewer Without, Windsor.
Andrew Moran - 22 Hodson Street, Salford: Andrew Moran was convicted of the manslaughter of Margaret Mary Hanman. They had been living together at 22 Hodson Street in Salford. After killing her he fled and was not arrested until nearly a year later when police received information that he was at a farm near Stafford.
Walter Taylor - Drill Hall, Cross Lane, Salford: Walter Taylor was convicted of the murder of John Francis Kelly but found to be insane and ordered to be detained. Walter Taylor was a soldier and had failed to appear for parade on the Thursday morning 26 April 1926 and was put in the guardroom at the headquarters of his regiment. However, later in the day Walter Taylor was seen at large and when the locked door of the guardroom was opened the body of John Kelly was found with his head almost severed.
Margaret Thomson - Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow : Margaret Thomson was convicted of the culpable homicide of her one-month-old son James Ferris Thomson. The child was found dead in the Forth and Clyde Canal.
Emily Milton - Hipperholme, West Yorkshire: Emily Milton was convicted of the manslaughter of her child Emily Milton 7 who died after her clothes caught on fire whilst her mother was out. Emily Milton had been the wife of a soldier fighting in France. She had three children aged nine, seven and three and it was said in the absence of her husband had always kept them clean and her house clean. However, it was said that she had been in the habit of leaving the children alone until midnight, leaving the nine-year-old to look after the other children.
Emma Riding - 10 Almond Street, Liverpool: Emma Riding was on trial for infanticide but was found to be insane. She burnt her one-month-old child John Henry Riding to death in a wooden soap box that was used as a cradle which she had left by the fireplace on the morning of 8 March 1916. She had poured paraffin on his clothes beforehand and left him near the fire and had then gone out of the house to go and draw her husband's separation allowance.
John Smith - Perth District Asylum, Murthly: John Smith was on trial for the murder of Robert Speedie but was found to be insane. They had been inmates at the Perth District Asylum. They had both been known as parole patients.
Duncan Campbell - Torhill Cottages, Ardargie, Forgandenny, Perthshire: Duncan Campbell was on trial for the murder of John Fraser Hardie but was found to be insane. He shot him on 13 January 1916 at Torhill Cottages, Ardargie, Forgandenny, Perthshire.
Reginald Haslam - 6 Ellis Street, Burnley: Reginald Haslam was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Isabella Holmes Conway 35 and sentenced to death. He strangled her at 6 Ellis Street, Burnley on 23 December 1915.
Charles Pickering - Volta Street, Selby: Charles Pickering was convicted of the manslaughter of his wife Emily Pickering. He slit her throat on the night of 19 January 1916. He said that his wife had persistently neglected him and their children and had asked him why he didn’t go to France and get shot. He said that he raised up a razor to scare her and that she raised a flat iron against him and that in the struggle he slit her throat. She was seen shortly after staggering down the road with the wound.
James Michael ODonnell - 32A George Street, Parade, Birmingham: James O’Donnell was convicted of the manslaughter of his friend William Rees 18. He cut William Rees's throat with a carving knife on 26 December 1915 around 10.15pm.
Frederick Phillis - 7 Crown Yard, Kirkgate, Leeds: Frederick Phillis was convicted of the murder of his wife Miranda Phillis 39 and sentenced to death but reprieved. Frederick Phillis had been a carter and had born an excellent character as a worker and time-keeper.
John Gough - Tredegar Street, Cardiff: John Gough was convicted of the manslaughter of John Powell. John Powell was a labourer and said that when he got home on 4 December 1916 that he had found three men there drinking out of a bottle, John Gough and two others and said that John Gough struck him, sending him to the floor and that the other two men then kicked him in the stomach until he lost consciousness. The following day John Powell said that it had been John Gough and one of the other men that had kicked him and that the third man had not touched him.
Frederick Holmes - 13 Clifford Street, Manchester: Frederick Holmes was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Sarah Woodall 28 and sentenced to death. He cut her throat at 13 Clifford Street in Manchester on 8 December 1915.
George William Herdman - 63 Roseberry Street, Beamish, Chester-le-Street: George William Herdman was found guilty but insane for the murder of Margaret Pickford 17. He shot her on 28 December 1914 whilst she was in bed.
William Smart - 23 Macdowall Street, Johnstone : William Smart was convicted of the culpable homicide of his wife. He beat her on the head and body with a stick or poker or other blunt instrument at their home at 23 MaCdowall Street in Johnstone on 25 December 1916.
Beryl Carlton Lingard - River Mersey, Princes Landing Stage, Liverpool: Beryl Carlton Lingard was convicted of the murder of her 7 week old half-caste child John Carlton Lingard and sentenced to death but reprieved. The body of the baby was found wrapped up in a pillow-slip in the River Mersey, Liverpool about 10 yards from No. 1 Bridge, Princes Landing Stage.
Emily Morris - 1 Bests Buildings, Hope Street, Grimsby: Emily Morris was convicted of the manslaughter of James Johnson 47 who she stabbed at her house because he refused to leave. James Johnson died nineteen days later from the knife wound. Emily Morris and James Johnson had lived together for 10 years but later Emily Morris married a fisherman but James Johnson would not leave her alone and went to her house and would not leave so she stabbed him with a pocket knife.
Ralph Wilkinson - Ashington: Ralph Wilkinson was on trial for wounding a woman with intent to murder her but was found to be unfit to plead. He attacked her on 14 October 1915 at her house where he was lodging.
John Fitzpatrick - County Asylum, Lancaster: John Fitzpatrick was found unfit to plead for the manslaughter of William Henry Brickhill 45. He beat him to death with a table leg at the County Asylum in Lancaster where they had both been patients.
Albert Edward Unwin - Bury and Bolton Canal, Radcliffe, Bury: Albert Edward Unwin was found guilty but insane for the murder of Albert James Osborne 7 who he threw into a canal at Radcliffe. He pushed him into the Bury and Bolton Canal on Tuesday 18 January 1916.
Herbert Christian - 10 Thames Street, Liverpool: Herbert Christian was on trial for the murder of his mother Mary Ann Christian but was found to be insane. After attacking her he went to tell the police and when they got to the house they found Mary Christian at the point of death. She died shortly afterwards.
Rodger Herbert Berry - Oldham: Rodger Herbert Berry was convicted of the manslaughter of Bertha Manton. He stabbed her in the head and then set fire to her house.
Mathilde Perois Curtis - 5 Finchley Road, St Johns Wood, London: Mathilde Perois Curtis was on trial for the murder of her sister Ellen Marie Curtis 33 but was found to be insane. She stabbed her in the neck with a table-knife.
Georges Codere - Arundel House, Grayshott: Georges Codere was convicted of the murder of Henry Marquis Ozanne, a sergeant in the 9th Canadian Mounted Rifles and sentenced to death but reprieved. He beat him to death with a trench club at Arundel House, Grayshott where his mutilated remains were found with 45 wounds to the face and neck on 8 December 1915.
Emma Georgina Annie Smith - 64 St Johns Avenue, Harlesden, London: Emma Georgina Annie Smith was on trial for murder of two of her children but found to be insane. She murdered them whilst in a fit of acute melancholia on 10 December 1915. The children were 9-month-old Florence Smith and 7-year-old Eileen Maron Smith. A third child, aged 4, whose throat she also cut, survived.
Samuel Soholovitch - Prince of Wales Inn, Whitehill, Bordon: Samuel Soholovitch was convicted of the manslaughter of Henri Jolicoeur. He stabbed him in the Prince of Wales Inn in Whitehill on 19 January 1916.
Ilion Arthur Keble - Bayswater Road, London: Ilion Arthur Keble was convicted of the attempted murder of his brother-in-law. His brother-in-law had been the London Manager of the Dresden Bank.
Ada Ann Elms - 117 Colne Road, Twickenham: Ada Ann Elms was convicted of the murder of her 18-month-old son but found to be insane. She also killed three other children. The children were all found dead in bed. They were aged 18-months, 3, 6 and 9. A teddy bear was tucked between two of them and a doll between the other two.
Frederick William Leach - 34 Warren Street, Islington, London: Frederick William Leach was convicted of the manslaughter of his uncle William Andrew Leach 39. He stabbed him at a family party on Christmas Day 1915. They had been drinking together and after a scuffle together William Leach fell with a wound nearly six-inches long in the chest.
Warehouseman - London: A warehouseman was convicted of the attempted murder of his wife by strangling her and of his lodger by stabbing him ten times with a knife. The defence at his trial was that he was jealous of the lodger with whom his wife had lived for a time.
Lee Kun - 1 New Alley, Three Colt Street, Limehouse, London: Lee Kun was convicted of the murder of his ex-girlfriend Clara Thomas 34 and sentenced to death. He stabbed her to death at Pennyfields, Poplar, London on 16 October 1915.
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