First Published: August 2017 - Last Updated: June 2023
Contains 103 cases including the case of Rhoda Willis who killed a baby on a train, Richard Brinkley who poisoned two people, Thomas Parrett who shot a farm worker, William Jacobs who killed two men in a religious mania, Elizabeth Breeze who killed her baby, John Crumpe who shot a woman, Horace Rayner who shot a man when he wouldn’t give him a job and Thomas Dennison who beat his wife to death in a drunken frenzy.
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A list of homicide convictions 1907.
Contains 103 cases including the case of Rhoda Willis who killed a baby on a train, Richard Brinkley who poisoned two people, Thomas Parrett who shot a farm worker, William Jacobs who killed two men in a religious mania, Elizabeth Breeze who killed her baby, John Crumpe who shot a woman, Horace Rayner who shot a man when he wouldn’t give him a job and Thomas Dennison who beat his wife to death in a drunken frenzy.
Contains all known homicide convictions from England, Scotland and Wales in 1907.
A fantastic resource for people that need a categorical reference for all homicide convictions from 1907.
Resourced from old newspapers, court files, police files and other varied sources.
The most authoritative resource for homicide convictions from 1907 in the UK on the market.
Cases include:
Joseph McAree - 39 Charles Street, Glasgow: Joseph McAree was convicted of the murder of his wife. Before his wife died, she said that Joseph McAree had dragged her out of bed and kicked her. She said, 'He trailed me out of bed and kicked me and smashed me'.
George Stills - 7 Bridgend Road, Pontycymmer: George Stills was convicted of the murder of his 70-year-old mother Rachel Hannah Stills and sentenced to death. He battered her to death at 7 Bridgend Road, Pontycymmer on 10 September 1907.
George Carpenter - Chiswick High Road, London: George Carpenter was convicted of the manslaughter of John Elias Dear. John Dear died from a fractured skull after George Carpenter crashed his car into a market van in fog on 11 November 1907, throwing John Dear out of the car and into the road.
Joseph Riley - White Swan Hotel, Long Gate, Oldham: Joseph Riley was convicted of the manslaughter of Frederick Marner. Joseph Riley had been a bookmaker and well known throughout the racecourses of England and was known as 'The Student'.
Henry John Copsey - Bromley Common, Bromley, London: Henry John Copsey was convicted of the manslaughter of 19-year-old Edward Akers who he ran over with his car. Edward Akers had been cycling along Bromley Common main road on 8 September 1907 when he was knocked off his cycle by Henry Copsey who had been travelling at 25-35mph.
Eliza Taylor - Preston, Hedon, Hull: Eliza Taylor was found guilty but insane for the murder of her 2-year-old infant son. She killed him on 8 November 1907 at her home in Preston, Hedon, near Hull.
Joseph Riley - 1c, 16h, Leicester Street, Coventry: Joseph Riley was found guilty of the attempted murder of his landlady but insane. He had been a polisher and had lodged with the woman at 1 Court, 16 House, in Leicester Street, Coventry.
Emily Jury - 20 Albion Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent: Emily Jury was on trial for the murder of her 5-week-old child but was found unfit to plead. She cut his throat on 10 September 1907 at her home.
William Duddles - Lutton Marsh, Lincolnshire: William Duddles was convicted of the murder of 36-year-old Catherine Gear and sentenced to death. He battered her to death at Sutton Marsh, Lincolnshire on 8 October 1907.
Mary Elizabeth Burvill - 22 Malmains Road, Dover, Kent: Mary Elizabeth Burvill was convicted of the manslaughter of her newly born illegitimate child who she threw out of a window. The child died from a fractured skull.
Albert Dewell - Stockingford, Nuneaton: Albert Dewell was convicted of the manslaughter of his mother Rosa Dewell 69. He killed her on 5 October 1907 and desecrated her body.
James Ansted - Claremont, 22 Overcliffe, Gravesend, Kent: James Ansted was on trial for the murder of his 36-year-old brother Thomas Windsor Ansted but was found to be insane and unfit to plead. He smashed his skull as he was asleep in bed on the night of Sunday 10 November 1907 at Claremont, 22 Overcliffe in Gravesend, Kent. Thomas Ansted was taken to hospital but died at 1.15am on the Monday morning.
Thomas Allen - 2 Back Of 35 Chapel Street, Moseley Hole, Wolverhampton: Thomas Allen was found guilty but insane for the murder of his 72-year-old wife Emily Allen. He killed her on 22 October 1907. She died from terrible injuries to her head caused by a bill-hook.
Ellen Shenton - Berry Lane, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: Ellen Shenton was convicted of the manslaughter of her sister Mary Ann Moston. She poured some oil from a lamp on her hair and set fire to her on 24 August 1907.
James Macdonald - Central Hotel, Cardiff: James Macdonald was found guilty but insane for the murder of Carrie Gilmour. Carrie Gilmour was found dead on 28 August 1907 on some ground at the rear of the Central Hotel and immediately in front of the South Wales and Monmouthshire Automobile Club's headquarters. Her throat had been cut from ear to ear and her head almost severed from her body.
Harry Finch Southcliffe - 13 Dorset Street, Portsmouth: Harry Finch Southcliffe was convicted of the murder of Elizabeth Burchell and sentenced to death but reprieved. He strangled her on 20 October 1907 at 13 Dorset Street in Portsmouth.
Thomas Edwards - 11 Ynyswen Road, Treherbert, Ystradfodwg, Glamorgan: Thomas Edwards was convicted of the manslaughter of his landlady 34-year-old Elizabeth Rhoda Roberts He threw a lighted lamp at her on 15 July 1907.
Stephen Ross - Tunnel Road, The Park, Nottingham: Stephen Ross was on trial for the murder of his three children, 7-year-old Archibald Ross, 3-year-old Bertie Ross and 1-year-old Frederick Ross, but found to be insane. He killed them on 13 August 1907 in their bedrooms at their house in Tunnel Road, The Park, Nottingham.
Felix Wallace - 31 and 33 Bonnington Road, Leith: Felix Wallace was convicted of the murder of his 38-year-old wife Helen Wallace. He killed her at a house they shared at 31 and 33 Bonnington Road, Leith on 12 August 1907.
Emma Southam - 13 Friars Street, Warwick: Emma Southam was on trial for the murder of her 2-month-old child but found unfit to plead. She was also charged with having murderously attacked and wounding two other children of a tender age. The child had been born on 2 June 1907 after which neighbours noted that Emma Southam had appeared despondent.
Claude Deering Dean - Gravel Bridge, Edenham, Bourne, Lincolnshire: Claude Dean was convicted of the murder of 24-year-old Emily Lockwood and sentenced to death but reprieved. They were lovers and had decided to commit suicide together on 24 July 1907.
George Sweatmore - Brookside, New Mills, High Peak, Derbyshire: George Sweatmore was convicted of the attempted murder of his 4-year-old daughter. George Sweatmore had been a labourer employed by the New Mills District Council and lived in New Mills with his wife and children.
Andrew Brown - Corran : Andrew Brown was convicted of the culpable homicide of Andrew Wilson. He assaulted him on or near the public road leading from Corran to Trislaiglll on 23 August 1907, striking him on the head with a stone or some other blunt instrument.
George Fryer - 5 Holt Street, Bradford, Manchester: George Fryer was convicted of the manslaughter of his lodger, 36-year-old William Edwin Taylor. He stabbed him with a reed hook during a quarrel.
William George Thomas Charles Austin - 5 Cranbourne Terrace, Oxford Road, Clewer, Windsor: William George Thomas Charles Austin was convicted of the murder of 13-year-old Unity Annie Butler and sentenced to death. He strangled her at 5 Cranbourne Terrace, Oxford Road, Clewer, Windsor on 16 July 1907.
Walter Ball - Aylestone, Leicester: Walter Ball was convicted of the manslaughter of 42-year-old Cornelius Richards. He struck him during a row over a game of skittles after leaving a public house in Aylestone on 3 August 1907.
Mary Ann Jarvis - Olive Hill Yard, Leicester: Mary Ann Jarvis was convicted of the manslaughter of her 5-month old child Robert Jarvis. The child died from neglect and starvation on 4 September 1907 at the Union Workhouse in Leicester.
William Frederick Painter - Warneford Asylum, Oxford: William Frederick Painter was on trial for the manslaughter of John Thornton Burt but was found unfit to plead. They had both been inmates at Warneford Asylum in Oxford. John Burt had been an inmate for ten years whilst William Painter had been there for fourteen years.
Charles Hackett - Islington, Halesowen: Charles Hackett was convicted of the manslaughter of his 52-year-old wife Elizabeth Hackett. He killed her on 16 July 1907 with a rod of iron. It was said that they had had a quarrel during which Charles Hackett had pushed a piece of iron in a violent manner through a hole in a wall at their house which had hit Elizabeth Hackett in her forehead, killing her.
Arthur Bedwell - Trinity Cottages, Richmond: Arthur Bedwell was convicted of wounding his wife with intent to murder her but was found to be insane. He had been a carriage cleaner on the North London Railway.
Archibald Ernest Page - Croft, Leicestershire: Archibald Page was convicted of the murder of Annie Elizabeth Haines 17 and sentenced to death but reprieved. He strangled her in a ditch at Croft, Leicestershire on 7 October 1907.
Ellen Watts - Over Norton: Ellen Watts was on trial for the murder of her child Thomas Watts but was found to be insane. The court heard that she had been a domestic servant in Oxford and had gone to Chipping Norton to see her sister where she later drowned her baby in a pond.
William Brotherston - 2 Carnegie Street, Dunfermline: William Brotherston was convicted of the culpable homicide of his wife Janet Stewart. He beat her on the head with a blind roller and kicked her on 13 July 1907.
John Gainsford - River Thames, Temple, London: John Gainsford was convicted of the attempted murder of his 4-month-old daughter Annie Gainsford. He threw her into the River Thames off the Embankment near the Temple.
Mary Ann Dearman - 21 Burlington Road, Enfield: Mary Ann Dearman was convicted of the manslaughter of her husband Alfred Dearman. She shot him with a patent horse killer on the night of 27 July 1907.
Robert Evrard - Oxford Street, London: Robert Evrard was convicted of the manslaughter of 14-year-old May Smith. He had been a chauffeur and was driving along Oxford Street near to Harewood Place when he ran over May Smith on 6 August 1907. May Smith and her friend had been crossing the street at the time. Her friend was knocked to the side but May Smith was run over.
Frederick Wilcox - Crosby Row, Borough: Frederick Wilcox was convicted of the manslaughter of 31-year-old John Newman. He struck him behind the left ear at Crosby Row on 22 August 1907.
Thomas Gray - 23 Dempster Street, Glasgow: Thomas Gray was convicted of the culpable homicide of his sweetheart 22-year-old Catherine Vallance. After killing her in the early hours of Thursday 18 July 1907, he at once ran to a district police office in Glasgow and said that he had murdered his sweetheart.
Archibald McMillan - Glasgow Harbour, Glasgow: Archibald McMillan was convicted of the culpable homicide of Robert Simpson. He stabbed him in the neck on 1 June 1907.
Rhoda Willis - On a train between Llanishen and Cardiff : Rhoda Willis was convicted of the murder of a newly-born child called Treasure. She asphyxiated her on a train between Llanishen and Cardiff on 4 April 1907.
Richard Clifford Brinkley - 32 Churchill Road, Croydon: Richard Clifford Brinkley was convicted of the murders of 55-year-old Richard Beck and 57-year-old Elizabeth Beck and sentenced to death. He poisoned them with prussic acid at 32 Churchill Road, Croydon on 20 April 1907.
Charles Paterson - 86 Crondall Street, Moss Side, Manchester : Charles Paterson was convicted of the murder of his partner, 39-year-old Lillian Jane Charlton, and sentenced to death. He cut her throat at 86 Crondall Street, Moss Side, Manchester on 29 June 1907.
George Edward Yates - 17 Fitzwilliam Street, East, Huddersfield: George Edward Yates was convicted for the attempted murder of his wife. He tried to strangle her.
Thomas William Parrett - Bradley Hall Farm, Haslington, Crewe: Thomas William Parrett was convicted of the murder of Albert Harry Birtles and sentenced to death but reprieved. He shot him in a field.
Thomas Edward Deveson - 38 Plaistow Grove, West Ham, London: Thomas Edward Deveson was convicted of the manslaughter of his 65-year-old father Edward Riley Deveson who died from heart failure after being assaulted. He struck Edward Deveson a blow whilst drunk on 19 June 1907. He had arrived home just before 1am on the Saturday morning and had been chided by Edward Deveson who had had to sit up to let him in. After Thomas Deveson had gone into the front parlour where he had started to play or bang the piano and Edward Deveson again remonstrated with him which resulted in a struggle during which Thomas Deveson hit Edward Deveson several times.
William Jacobs - Edgefield, Norfolk: William Jacobs was on trial for the murders of his 73-year-old father William Jacobs the elder and 37-year-old Walter Ford but was found to be insane. He killed them in the early hours of 30 June 1907.
Charles Smith and Mary Vivienne Churchill - Russel Square, London: Charles Smith and Mary Vivienne Churchill were convicted of attempting to kill a man. Charles Smith was convicted of shooting with intent to murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Charles Henry Rogers and Jessie Elizabeth Lucas - Albion Pub, Islington, London: Charles Henry Rogers and Jessie Elizabeth Lucas were convicted of the manslaughter of John Smith. John Smith died after Charles Rogers punched him in the Albion pub in Islington, London on 16 June 1907.
Joseph Robbins - New Summer Street, Birmingham: Joseph Robbins was convicted of the manslaughter of 23-year-old Albert Harrison. They had been playing pitch and toss and quarrelled over a penny which Albert Harrison lost to Joseph Robbins.
Thomas Palmer - South Eastern and Chatham Railway, near Kingswood Tunnel: Thomas Palmer was convicted of the manslaughter of 32-year-old Robert Choat. He killed him in an Epsom race train on 24 April 1907 by hitting him after he said that Robert Choat had used bad words and had struck him.
Emma Jane Duplock - 37 College Road, Colliers Wood, Merton: Emma Jane Duplock was convicted of administering laudanum to her three children with intent to murder them. She said that she had not done it to injure them but to frighten her husband, to cure him of drinking habits.
William Edward Slack - Highfield Road, Chesterfield : William Edward Slack was convicted of the murder of 40-year-old Lucy Wilson and sentenced to death. He attacked her with a hatchet in Highfield Road, Chesterfield on 18 March 1907.
Thomas Wilson - Northgate, Huddersfield: Thomas Wilson was convicted of the manslaughter of Robinson Pennington. He fractured his skull in an assault in Northgate, Huddersfield.
Willie Greaves - Lane End, Chapeltown, Sheffield: Willie Greaves was convicted of the murder of his 2-year-old daughter Hilda Greaves and sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted. He came home drunk on 21 May 1907 and threw her on the fire and she later died from her burns on 29 May 1907.
William Bracewell - Carrington Lane, Ashton-on-Mersey: William Bracewell was convicted of the manslaughter of 62-year-old John Nairy who he ran over with his car on 17 May 1906. He knocked him down on Carrington Lane, Ashton-on-Mersey.
Frank Campion - Fleet Place, Leen Side, Nottingham: Frank Campion was convicted of the manslaughter of 38-year-old Esther Cullen. Esther Cullen had been a widow and they had been cohabitating. Esther Cullen had been living at Fleet Place, Leen Side.
James Ritchie - 151 Castle Street, Glasgow: James Ritchie was convicted of the murder of his sweetheart, Elizabeth Wilson Gilmour, and sentenced to death but reprieved. Elizabeth Gilmour was said to have had a strange premonition that she was going to be murdered, it being noted that she had said to someone, 'I'm going to be murdered'.
Elizabeth Ann Breeze - River Severn, Caton Hill: Elizabeth Ann Breeze was convicted of the murder of her 8-month-old infant child and detained. She drowned him. The child's body was later found in the River Severn at Caton Hill on 1 April 1907.
William Emberson - Cambridge Barracks, Portsmouth: William Emberson was convicted of the manslaughter of Charles Frederick Beard. They were both privates in the 2d Battalion Middlesex Regiment.
Stephen Briggs - Mountsett, Dipton: Stephen Briggs was convicted of the manslaughter of his 34-year-old wife Mary Ann Briggs. He knocked her down onto a cemented floor on Saturday 8 June 1907, causing injuries to her head, face and spine from which she later died on Sunday 9 June 1907.
James Hamilton Stanley - 160 St Georges Road, Camberwell, London: James Hamilton Stanley was convicted of the attempted murder of a woman. James Stanley and a 22-year-old leather-dresser, along with the woman's 16-year-old son broke into the woman's house around midnight on 11 June 1907 in order to break into the safe there which the woman's son had said contained £100.
Eliza Butler - Regents Canal, Maida Vale, London: Eliza Butler was convicted of the attempted murder of her 5-month-old grandson but found to be insane. She tried to drown him in the Regent's Canal near Maida Vale. It was said that she had been caught in the act of holding him under water.
Annie Gander - 113 Whitwell Road, Plaistow, London: Annie Gander was convicted of the manslaughter of her 18-month-old son Albert Gander. The court heard that she was given to drink and had neglected him to the extent that he died from pneumonia.
Allan Kennedy - 26 Albert Street, Millom, Cumbria: Allan Kennedy was found guilty but insane for the murder of his 64-year-old aunt Elizabeth Hunter. Elizabeth Hunter had recently gone from Yorkshire to live with Allan Kennedy and his wife at 26 Albert Street in Millom.
John Langford Crumpe - Cornwall House, St Ronans Road, Southsea: John Langford Crumpe was found guilty but insane for the murder of his 58-year-old wife Mary Maud Crumpe. He shot her after she refused to give him any money.
Thomas Paynter Polmear - Digey Square, St Ives, Cornwall: Thomas Paynter Polmear was on trial for the murder of 4-month-old William John Davis but was found to be insane. He killed him on 14 March 1907 at Digey Square, St Ives.
Edward John Peters - Broad Lane, Illogan, Cornwall: Edward John Peters was convicted of the manslaughter of his 39-year-old father Thomas Edward Peters who he hit on the head with a hammer after finding that he had been hitting his mother again. The court heard that Thomas Peters, who was a stone breaker and did odd jobs as a labourer, had been a lazy worthless man who was often cruel to his wife and children. When John Peters got home from work and found out that he had been hitting his mother again he killed him.
William Bain - Inner Harbour, Wick: William Bain was convicted of the culpable homicide of 21-year-old David Bain Gunn. He assaulted him on 15 March 1907 and pushed him into the Inner Harbour at Wick.
Marianna Dayasulisikai - Newport, Braes: Marianna Dayasulisikai was convicted of the culpable homicide of her child. Marianna Dayasulisikai was a Russian Pole. She had been forced to leave her home in Russia and was on her way to America. However, when she reached the United Kingdom the authorities refused to allow her to embark as an emigrant and she went to Dundee where she was aware that she had some family working in a mill. She couldn't speak any English and required an interpreter.
Horace George Rayner - 43 Westbourne Grove, Lancaster Gate, London: Horace George Rayner was convicted of the murder of William Whiteley and sentenced to death but reprieved. Horace Rayner had called at William Whiteley's shop on 24 January 1907, gaining admission by pretending to have come from a certain person and asked for a position. They had a long interview in William Whiteley's private office after which William Whiteley came out and asked his assistant to call the police. However, Horace Rayner then followed him out and shot him dead and then fired his revolver at himself causing an injury that was so severe that for several days his life was in danger.
James Ashton - Wellesley Street, City Road, London: James Ashton was convicted of the manslaughter of Garrett William Dundon. He stabbed him in City Road near Wellesley Street on the night of 21 April 1907 which was the day of the Football Cup final.
Mathew Pearson Dobbie - 15 Carnegie Street, Edinburgh: Mathew Pearson Dobbie was convicted of the manslaughter of his 60-year-old father James Dobbie. James Dobbie had been a carter and had lived in a small house at 15 Carnegie Street.
Louisa Cameron - 6 Vaughan Street, Toxteth, Liverpool: Louisa Cameron was on trial for the murder of her 9-year-old son Charles Cameron but was found to be insane. She cut his throat on 9 April 1907.
Thomas Nolan - 113 Portland Street, Liverpool: Thomas Nolan was found guilty of the murder of his wife Ann Nolan but insane. He beat her brains out with a hammer. He was known to his friends as 'crackpot' and would often quote Shakespeare.
Thomas Dennison - Cob Castle Road, Cob Castle, Haslingdon: Thomas Dennison killed his 56-year-old wife Margaret Dennison in a drunken frenzy on 9 March 1907. He kicked her in the road and left her there all night.
James Wood - Tinworth Street, Vauxhall, London: James Wood was convicted of the manslaughter of 24-year-old Maria Webb. James Wood had been a carman and Maria Webb a kitchen maid. They had been seeing each other for some years.
James Albert Jones - 16 Goldstone Buildings, Great Tower Street, London: James Albert Jones was convicted of the manslaughter of his 18-year-old wife Maria Frances Jones. He cut her throat at her home.
William Powell - 114 Chorley Street, Bolton: William Powell was convicted of the manslaughter of Edward Fearnley. William Powell had been a greengrocer.
Mary Inglis - Boydlairglass Farm, Aberdeen: Mary Inglis was convicted of the culpable homicide of her child. She left it in the stackyard of Boydlairglass Farm after giving birth to it. She wrapped him up in an apron and then left him there to die in the inclement weather.
Charles Kennedy - Lady Belhavens Buildings, Meadowhead Road, Craigneuk, Wishaw: Charles Kennedy was convicted of the culpable homicide of his 36-year-old wife Christina Kennedy. He set fire to her clothes.
John Edward Wyatt - 12 Speenham Road, Brixton, London: John Wyatt was convicted of the murder of 21-year-old Florence Wakeling and sentenced to death but reprieved. They had been sweethearts but Florence Akwell didn't want to see John Wyatt anymore. They were playing cards at a friend’s when he shot her after she rejected his advance again.
Edwin James Moore - 13 Oxford Street, Leamington: Edwin James Moore was convicted of the murder of his 52-year-old mother Fanny Adelaide Moore and sentenced to death. He set fire to her at their home in Leamington on 5 December 1906 at about 8pm.
Joseph Jones - 18 Victoria Road, Quarry Bank, Stafford: Joseph Jones murdered his 28-year-old son-in-law Edmund Clarke and was sentenced to death. He cut his throat and battered him at Quarry Bank, Stafford on 1 December 1906.
Thomas Mathieson Brown - Woodside, Cumnock, Ayrshire: Thomas Brown was found guilty but insane for the murder of Grace McKerrow. He sent her shortcake through the post that was laced with strychnine.
Arthur Parker Hawkins - Princess Of Wales Pub, 69 South Street, Walworth, London: Arthur Hawkins was convicted of the murder of his 48-year-old sister Mary Ann Alpe and sentenced to death but reprieved. Arthur Hawkins lived with a woman in Suffolk Street, Walworth and at the time they were living in extreme poverty and were about to be turned out of their lodgings. On 23 February Arthur Hawkins said to the woman that he was living with, 'I'm afraid this is the last tea we shall have in this house'. After their tea he then said that he would go and see his sister, Mary Alpe, and ask her for 3s for the rent and 1s for food. Mary Alpe was married to an 84-year-old man and lived at 85 South Street, Walworth.
Herbert Percy George Alexander - Whitecross Street, St Lukes, London: Herbert Percy George Alexander was convicted of the manslaughter of his 20-year-old sweetheart Honora Histon. Herbert Alexander and Honora Histon had been engaged to marry for the previous four years but had had a disagreement near the end of February 1907.
George Gourlay - Arbroath: George Gourlay was convicted of culpable homicide. He was the driver of a railway engine that crashed into a passenger train killing 22 people.
William Henry Newsholme - Clayton Street, Bradford: William Henry Newsholme was convicted of the manslaughter of his wife Elizabeth Newsholme. They were heard quarrelling on 9 February 1907 when William Newsholme was heard to say, 'I have followed her to the house in Bowling, and the man was there. I can't stand him. I will make a finish of it. I will end her and myself'.
Frank Belshaw - Barker Gate, Nottingham: Frank Belshaw was convicted of the manslaughter of 14-year-old Annie Wells. He seized her on 20 October 1906 and dragged her into a dark alley where he kicked her causing injuries that resulted in her death. She was taken to Bagthorpe Workhouse Infirmary where she died on 25 November 1906.
Mary Ann Huskinson - 9 Saville Street, Hyson Green, Nottingham: Mary Ann Huskinson was convicted of the manslaughter of her 45-year-old sister Jane Radford. On 30 November 1906 Mary Huskinson came out of the Nottingham Workhouse. She had lived at 10 Fairfax Street.
Ernest Noyland - 9 Cliffe Terrace, Grange Street, Hull: Ernest Noyland was convicted of the manslaughter of 77-year-old Esther Tye who he killed in December 1906. Ernest Noyland and his wife, who was 19-years-old, lived at 13 Cliffe Terrace in Hull.
George Woods - 1 Scotston Place, Silverbanks, Cambuslang: George Woods was convicted of the culpable homicide of his son James Woods. James Woods was found on the stairs with blood flowing from his head. George Woods was later seen trying to lift him, but James Woods pushed him away, an action which it was said caused George Woods to reply with an oath, saying, 'Don't shove me, or I'll give you more'.
Henry Henry MDonough - Liverpool: Henry M'Donough was convicted of the manslaughter of his 5-month old child Elizabeth M'Donough. He quarrelled with his wife on a Saturday night, 2 February 1907, and threw a bar at her but it missed and struck Elizabeth M'Donough killing her.
Michael Freeman - Islington Street, Salford: Michael Freeman was convicted of the manslaughter of Elizabeth Tymon. He kicked her in the jaw during a row in December 1906.
Richard Crowther and Mary Ann Williams - Pentwynmawr, Newbridge: Richard Crowther and Mary Ann Williams were convicted of the manslaughter of John Thomas. Richard Crowther had a fight with John Thomas in a pub and Mary Williams called out, 'Knife him, Dick'.
Florence Cowle - 36 Conduit Place, Ashley Road, Bristol: Florence Cowle was convicted of the manslaughter of Kate Radford. She performed an illegal operation on her.
William Rowsen Owen - Dorset Arms, 35 Orchard Lane, Southampton, Hampshire: William Rowes Owen was convicted for the murder of his 23-year-old wife Beatrice Phoebe Owen and sentenced to death but reprieved. He killed her on 18 November 1906 at the Dorset Arms.
George Frederick Church - 48 Cornwall Road, Tottenham: George Frederick Church was convicted of the manslaughter of his wife Fanny Church. He struck her on the head as she lay in bed.
Thomas Holt - Heath Charnock, Chorley: Thomas Holt was convicted of the manslaughter of William Iddon. They were poaching on 11 January 1907 together and Thomas Holt said his gun went off accidently and killed William Iddon.
William Mitchell - 15 Graham Street, Leith: William Mitchell was convicted of the culpable homicide of Augusta Annie Grant, his newly born child. He pitched the child over a window on 10 November 1906 into the street where she lay nude and died.
Louisa Pearce - Heveningham, Suffolk: Louisa Pearce was convicted of the murder of her 7-year-old daughter Ethel Maud Pearce and sentenced to death but reprieved. Ethel Pearce was born illegitimate on 5 November 1899.
Thomas Hendry - 2 Ferrier Street, Leith: Thomas Hendry was convicted of the culpable homicide of his wife Elizabeth Hendry. He shot her after she nagged him.
Frederick George Turvell - Dorset County Asylum, Charminster, Dorset: Frederick George Turvell was convicted for the murder of 40-year-old George Legg. They were both certified lunatics at the Dorset County Asylum, also referred to as Herrison Asylum.
John Davis - 17 Tower Place, Aston Manor: John Davis was convicted of the murder of his 47-year-old girlfriend Jane Harrison and was sentenced to death. He cut her throat at 17 Tower Place, Aston on 17 November 1906.
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