First Published: August 2016 - Last Updated: November 2022
Contains 126 cases including the cases of George Edward Hobbs who shot his father in a pub, Joseph Henry Harrison who cut his employers throat after a night out at a pub, Richard Edward Goodall who threw his children into a canal, Herbert John Bennett who killed his wife on Yarmouth Beach, John Miller and John Robert Miller who stabbed John Ferguson and Charles Everard Canham who murdered his wife and one of his 8 children.
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A list of homicide convictions 1901.
Contains 126 cases including the cases of George Edward Hobbs who shot his father in a pub, Joseph Henry Harrison who cut his employers throat after a night out at a pub, Richard Edward Goodall who threw his children into a canal, Herbert John Bennett who killed his wife on Yarmouth Beach, John Miller and John Robert Miller who stabbed John Ferguson and Charles Everard Canham who murdered his wife and one of his 8 children.
Contains all known homicide convictions from England, Scotland and Wales in 1901.
A fantastic resource for people that need a categorical reference for all homicide convictions from 1901.
Resourced from old newspapers, court files, police files and other varied sources.
The most authoritative resource for homicide convictions from 1901 in the UK on the market.
Cases include:
John Harrison - Rose Cottage, Bickerstaffe: John Harrison was convicted of the murder of Alice Ann Wright and sentenced to death. The evidence against him was entirely circumstantial.
William Grotegoed - Watsons Berth, New Wet Dock, Grangemouth: William Grotegoed was convicted of the culpable homicide of Tuon Klop. They were both seamen.
George Fowles, Joseph Adey and John Davis - Staniforth Street, Birmingham: Joseph Adey, John Davis and George Fowles were convicted of the manslaughter of Charles Philip Gunter 25, a policeman. Charles Gunter had gone to quell an argument at a property in Staniforth Street, Birmingham on 23 July 1901. When he left the property he was assaulted and pelted with bricks. He was said to have been hit in the head by two bricks around midnight.
Ernesto Paccitto - Goose Pool, Chertsey, Surrey: Ernesto Paccitto was convicted of the manslaughter of Antonio Quagliere. He stabbed him in the neck following a dispute over money.
Alexander Claydon - 7 Portland Street, Northampton : Alexander Claydon was convicted of the murder of his wife Louisa Claydon and sentenced to death. He beat her to death with a heavy file and stabbed her multiple times on Sunday 7 July 1901.
Richard Handley - Hill Top, West Bromwich: Richard Handley was convicted of the manslaughter of Thomas Gorman. He attacked him at West Bromwich on 3 August 1901.
Frederick Rushton - Havelock Street, Stoke: Frederick Rushton was convicted of the manslaughter of his father Edward Rushton. On the night of 2 November 1901 Frederick Rushton, Edward Rushton and a milkman had a row. The milkman was stood at the door and he saw Edward Rushton hit his father inside the house about the head and then start kicking him causing him to fall to the ground.
Eli Hyman Jacobson - Leeds: Eli Hyman Jacobson was convicted of the attempted murder of his sweetheart. She was found in a field by the police with a handkerchief tied tightly round her neck and Eli Jacobson kneeling on her chest.
Lewis Brown - Fulstone, Holmfirth: Lewis Brown was convicted of the manslaughter of Joe Lockwood. He shot him in Fulstone on 5 August 1901.
George Robert Beeby - 21 Court, 8 House, Attercliffe Road, Sheffield: George Robert Beeby was convicted of the manslaughter of his daughter Gertrude Ellen May Beeby 3 and his son John Henry Beeby 2 who he starved to death. A third child also died but he was not charged with that death. In 17 days four of his children died.
John George Thompson - 122 Milling Street, Gateshead: John George Thompson was convicted of the murder of his ex-girlfriend Maggie Ann Lieutand 33. They had lived together although she was already married to someone else. However, their relationship broke down and Maggie Lieutand refused to have anything to do with him.
Bessie Lockyer - Holly Street East, Leamington: Bessie Lockyer murdered her six month old child Arnold Edward Lockyer but was found to be insane. She cut its throat while her husband was at chapel. She almost cut his head clean off with the razor.
John Miller and John Robert Miller - 55 Hudleston Street, Cullercoats: John Miller and John Robert Miller were convicted for the murder of John Ferguson 60 and sentenced to death. They murdered him on 20 September 1901 in the afternoon at his house.
John Stevens - Stone Cross Inn, Tamworth: John Stevens was convicted of the manslaughter of Charles Baker who he killed at the Stone Cross Inn over a row about a quart of beer. John Stevens and Charles Baker were both lodging at the Stone Cross Inn.
James Taylor - 8 Granville Street North, Hanley: James Taylor was convicted of the manslaughter of his paramour Annie Jane Broom who he killed at Hanley on 28 September 1900. They came home drunk and had an argument and James Taylor smashed in Annie Broom's head. After he called for his neighbours to confess.
Walter Gillman Chapman - Grayshot, Haslemere: Walter Gillman Chapman was found guilty but insane for the murder of his wife, Emily Chapman 40. He killed her with a carpenter's chisel on 29 July 1901, inflicting many wounds.
Henry Curtis - 11 John Street, Broad Plain, Bristol: Henry Curtis was convicted of the manslaughter of his wife Caroline Eleanor Curtis. They were both drunk on 12 November 1901 when they had a quarrel at their home at 11 John Street in Broad Plain, Bristol, and Henry Curtis hit Caroline Curtis over the head with a chopper.
Jessie St Quinton - 15 Upper Gray Street, Edinburgh: Jessie St Quinton was charged with the murder of her two children, a 2-year-old boy and a 9-month-old boy, but was found to be insane. She cut their throats from ear to ear with a table knife at 15 Upper Gray Street in Edinburgh and then attempted to commit suicide.
Patrick McKenna - 17 Kestor Street, Bolton, Lancashire: Patrick McKenna was convicted of the murder of his wife Anne McKenna. He cut her throat on 30 September 1901 whilst drunk.
Louisa Emily Felton - Green Lane, Newport, Salop, Shropshire: Louisa Emily Felton was on trial for the attempted murder of her three children but was found to be insane. She had attempted to cut their throats shortly after being confined.
George Edward Hobbs - Bird In Hand Inn, Eckington: George Edward Hobbs murdered his father John William Hobbs 46 and was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted. He shot his father whilst drunk and wounded his mother and sister.
Joseph Henry Harrison - Brook Road, Borrowash: Joseph Harrison was convicted of the murder of Thomas Campion and sentenced to death but reprieved. They had been drinking together.
Mary Jane Roe - North Hykeham, Lincoln: Mary Roe was convicted of the murder of her 3-year-old child Alfred Roe but found to have been insane at the time. She killed him on 20 September 1901 in North Hykeham. Mary Roe lived in North Hykeham, Lincoln with her husband, his father and her five children.
George Robinson and Ellen Robinson - Doddridge Street, Northampton: George Robinson and Ellen Robinson were convicted of the manslaughter of their 9-year-old son John Robinson. They had lived in a house in a court in Doddridge Street which they had rented for 3s 6d a week.
Frank Searle - Stotfold, Bedfordshire: Frank Searle was found guilty of the attempted murder of his wife but insane. He shot her at Stotfold on 22 August 1901.
Samuel Porter - 24 Union Street, Oldbury: Samuel Porter was convicted of the manslaughter of his paramour Mary Farr who he kicked to death whilst pregnant. He said that she was a drunken woman and had driven him to it.
John Harding - Builders Arms, 20 Moreton Street, Pimlico, London: John Harding was convicted of the manslaughter of William Gray 45. John Harding and William Gray had been drinking at the Guildford Arms or Builders Arms at 20 Moreton Street, Pimlico on 19 November 1901 when John Harding said that he saw a man strike a woman. He said that he then aimed a blow at the man that had hit the woman but missed and hit William Gray who subsequently died from concussion.
Martial Faugeron - 4 Lower Charles Street, Clerkenwell, London: Martial Faugeron was convicted of the murder of Hermann Francis Jung 64 and sentenced to death. He stabbed him in the neck on 3 September 1901.
Peter Hansen - Golden Lion, 35 Union Street, North Shields: Peter Hansen was convicted of wounding a woman with intent to murder her. He was a Danish seaman.
Elizabeth Farrant - 3 Carter Street, Mile End, London: Elizabeth Farrant was convicted of the manslaughter of Caroline Ward 33. When she was taken into custody she said 'I didn't kill the woman. I didn't kill her', she then went on to say 'I didn't tell the coroner they were all drunk'.
Charles Victor Voodelkie - 16 Jamaica Street, Edinburgh: Charles Victor Voodelkie was convicted of assault with loaded weapon with intent to murder. He shot a 22-year-old woman on 6 or 7 May 1901 at 16 Jamaica Street in Edinburgh with a revolver loaded with ball cartridge, wounding her in the neck, arm and hand.
William Oliver - Spring Hill Cottages, Dawley, Telford, Shropshire: William Oliver was on trial for the murder of his wife Harriet Oliver 70 but he was found to be insane. He battered her skull in with a heavy poker while she was chopping sticks.
Joseph Blunschi - Park Hotel, Preston: Joseph Blunschi was convicted of the attempted murder of a man. He had been burgling the Park Hotel in Preston at the time and had attacked the man with a cleaver.
James Williams - Barripper Road, Wendron, Helston, Cornwall: James Williams was convicted of the manslaughter of Henry Lane 66. James Williams had been a labourer.
Ellen Phillips - St Agnes, Truro, Cornwall: Ellen Phillips was found guilty but insane for the murder of her 2-year-old child Mary Elizabeth Phillips. After hearing a mass of evidence the jury found Ellen Phillips guilty of wilful murder.
Caroline Palmer - Rookery Farm, Westthorpe, Suffolk: Caroline Palmer was found guilty but insane for the murder of the three-year-old son of her employer, Horace Sykes. She stabbed him a number of times in the neck with a knife used for killing pigs.
John Price - Beresford Street, Woolwich: John Price was convicted of the murder of his wife Barbara Price and sentenced to death but reprieved. He shot her through the body with a rifle on 23 September 1901.
Alfred Farrow - 2 Lock and Key Yard, Ber Street, Norwich: Alfred Farrow was convicted of the manslaughter of his wife Sarah Farrow 45. He attacked her on 12 October 1901, causing a head injury from which she died on 16 October 1901.
Alice Neville - 3 Croydon Street, Marylebone, London: Alice Neville was on trial for the attempted murder of her husband but was found to be insane. She afterwards attempted to cut her own throat.
James John Richardson - 3 Bedfordbury, London: James John Richardson was found guilty but insane for the murder of 2-year-old Thomas James Mills. James Richardson had been living with a woman at 3 Bedfordbury. The woman went out at 9pm leaving James Richardson eating his supper and Thomas Mills in bed.
Edward Palmer - Thrawl Street, Spitalfields, London: Edward Palmer was convicted of the manslaughter of Henry Wilson 24. He stabbed him during a brawl in Thrawl Street, Spitalfields on 1 October 1901.
Harriett Holmes - 11 Southwark Street, London: Harriett Holmes was found guilty but insane for the murder of her son and daughter, 10-year-old Alfred John Holmes and 12-year-old Edith Elizabeth Holmes. She cut their throats at their home, in the back room on the third floor at 11 Southwark Street, London.
David Smith - Old Shore Head, Crandtully, Blairgowrie and Dunkeld: David Smith was convicted of the culpable homicide of Jessie Lawson. He assaulted her on three occasions:
Ralph John Dyer and Caroline Agnes Dyer - 94 Green Lanes, Stoke Newington: Caroline Agnes Dyer and Ralph John Dyer were tried for the murder of Frances Annie Norbury. Caroline Dyer was found unfit to plead.
Elizabeth Young - North Tay Street, Dundee: Elizabeth Young was convicted of the culpable homicide of Elizabeth Garrity. She assaulted and knocked her down in North Tay Street on Saturday 31 August 1901.
Richard Edward Goodall - Regents Canal, Chalbert Street Bridge, Camden Town: Richard Edward Goodall was found guilty but insane for the murder of 5-year-old James Edward Goodall. He had thrown his three children, two girls and a boy, 3-year-old Mildred Catherine Goodall, 5-year-old James Edward Goodall and 8-year-old Edith Alberta May Goodall, into the Regents Canal.
James Emanuel Shepherd - Barking Road, London: James Emanuel Shepherd was convicted of the manslaughter of Richard Foster Pezer 26. He stabbed him in the neck on Barking Road on the night of 3 August 1901.
James Botton - 21 Baildon Street, Deptford, London: James Botton was found guilty but insane for the murder of his wife Catherine Botton 34 and detained. He killed her on 14 July in Deptford.
John Joyce - 9 Court, Price Street, Birmingham: John Joyce was convicted of the murder of John Nugent 61 and sentenced to death. He stabbed him in Price Street, Birmingham on Monday, 10 June 1901.
Ernest Walter Wickham - Dalberg Road, Brixton, London: Ernest Walter Wickham was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Amy Eugenie Russell 35. He cut her throat on 27 June 1901 after she refused to marry him until he got a job.
Annie Dempster - Montrose Royal Infirmary: Annie Dempster was convicted of the culpable homicide of her newly born female child. She gave birth to the child at the Montrose Royal Infirmary after which she wrapped the child up in her petticoat and suffocated her after which she placed the body between two mattresses of a bed.
Annie Rachael Turner - Adelaide Street, Roscommon Street, Liverpool: Annie Rachael Turner killed Luke Crean who she hit on the head with a hatchet. Luke Crean was a coal heaver.
William Daley - 19 Water Street, Preston: William Daley was on trial for the murder of his wife Elizabeth Daley but was found to be insane. He beat her to death with a coal hammer on 20 July 1901.
John Walker Holmes - Yeadon, West Yorkshire: John Walker Holmes was convicted of the manslaughter of his wife Martha Holmes. A charge of murdering his daughter Hannah Maria Holmes was not preferred. On the night of 13 May he was sulking and upset a petroleum lamp because he had no tobacco.
Charles Richard Thomas Watkins - 138 Old Road West, Gravesend, Kent: Charles Richard Thomas Watkins was convicted of the murder of his Brother-in-Law Frederick William Acland Hamerton 46. He shot him during an argument at William Hamerton's home at 138 Old Road West, Gravesend on Friday 5 April 1901.
George Lancaster - North Street Passage, Sheerness: George Lancaster was convicted of the murder of his wife Sarah Lancaster 55 and sentenced to death but reprieved. They quarrelled in April 1901 and he attacked her with a chopper at his house on North Street Passage, a thoroughfare a few yards from the entrance to Mile Town Railway Station.
Alfred Palmer - Ship Street, Westcombe Park: Alfred Palmer was convicted for the murder of Florence Irving and sentenced to death but reprieved. He killed her in Westcombe Park. He had lived in Deptford with her on Ship Street.
John Ingham Mason - West Houghton, Bolton: John Ingham Mason was convicted of the attempted murder of his sister-in-law. He had been a collier of West Houghton near Bolton.
Hannah Johnson Cox - Birmingham Canal, Cosley: Hannah Johnson Cox was convicted of the murder of her two children, 2-year-old Flora Jane Cox and 5-month-old Mary Madeline Cox. She was found guilty but insane. She drowned them on 14 June 1901 in the Birmingham Canal at Cosley.
Elizabeth Manning - 11 Beacon Street, Springfield, Wolverhampton: Elizabeth Manning was found insane for the murder of her son Arthur Manning who she killed in Wolverhampton on 8 May 1901. She cut his throat with a penknife at Springfield.
Moses Robinson Witty - St Mark Street, Hull: Moses Robinson Witty shot his daughter Rosetta Forsey Witty and attacked her mother-in-law. Rosetta Witty had been married for only four days. Moses Witty went to her home on St Mark Street on 28 March 1901 and shot her twice in the head. He then went to another part of Hull where Rosetta Witty's mother-in-law lived and shot her after which he attempted suicide by cutting his throat.
William Augustus Rumley - Westmorland Street, Marylebone, London: William Augustus Rumley was found guilty but insane for the murder of Charles Richard Buckland. William Rumley was a furniture porter in Battersea.
Phillip Smyth - 3 Chandos Road, East Stratford: Phillip Smyth was convicted for the manslaughter of Harriett Smyth. He beat her at their home on 2 July 1901.
Joseph Holloway - 45 South Grove, Walthamstow, London: Joseph Holloway was convicted for the manslaughter of 16-year-old Amelia Maud Callaghan. Joseph Holloway had been having a quarrel with Amelia Callaghan's brother, his stepson and he threw a lighted paraffin lamp at him which exploded and set fire to Amelia Callaghan's clothes.
Elizabeth Topham - Old Volunteer Inn, 35 Burton Road, Carlton, Nottingham: Elizabeth Topham was convicted of the murder of Annie Louisa Allcock upon whom she performed an illegal operation. She was sentenced to death but reprieved. Elizabeth Topham had previously served seven years imprisonment for a similar offence.
John William Carter - West Hartlepool: John William Carter was convicted of the murder of Agnes Wilson 35 by performing an illegal operation and sentenced to death. The sentence of death was however commuted. The post mortem revealed that her death was due to septic peritonitis.
Thomas Forster - St Cuthberts Road, Gateshead: Thomas Forster was convicted of the manslaughter of his sister Esther Forster 14. He hit her with a brush on the back of her head.
Isaac Ellaway - Chepstow: Isaac Ellaway was convicted of the manslaughter of Charles Richards. They had been in the White Lion Inn in Chepstow on Saturday 6 April 1901 when they had a quarrel and were thrown out by the landlady. They then had a struggle outside in which Isaac Ellaway got the worst of it. They then parted and went their several ways.
William Green - Dartford: William Green was on trial for the murder of George Harold Urmson but was found to be insane and was sent to Broadmoor. He was alleged to have killed him on 16 April 1901.
Laurence Solari - Morledge, Derby: Laurence Solari was convicted of the manslaughter of Frederick John Fisher. They had both been to Morledge pleasure fair and had a row and Laurence Solari punched Frederick Fisher causing him to fall unconscious.
Mary Annie Simpson - Sandholme Mill Cottage, Barnacre-with-Bonds: Mary Simpson murdered her three children, 3-month-old Allan Edwin Simpson, 3-year-old Florence Simpson and 4-year-old Annie Simpson who she drowned in a dolly tub. She was found to be insane and was detained. She was the wife of a miller and had lived at Sandholm Mill Cottage in Barnacre.
Valeri Giovanni - British Barque Lorton, High Seas: Valeri Giovanni was convicted of the murder of Victor Baileff and sentenced to death. They were crew members on the British barque Lorton, a merchant ship out of Liverpool. The ship had been to Hamburg and then to Portland, Oregon. It then went to South Africa, and then Australia and then to South America. The barque had had a crew of 21 and had left Hamburg for Portland on 1 April 1900.
Raymond Mills and Annie Mills - Winchcombe, Gloucestershire: Raymond Mills and Annie Mills were convicted of the manslaughter of their 18-month-old child Hubert Frank Mills. Hubert Mills died on 6 March 1901.
Mary Poffley - Brook Road, Hornsey, London: Mary Poffley was convicted of wounding her 14-year-old daughter with intent to murder her. Mary Poffley was a widow and had lived in Brook Road, Hornsey.
William Enoch Kirk - Frith Bank, Sibsey, Boston: William Enoch Kirk murdered Ellen Kirk. He was sentenced to death but reprieved on the grounds of insanity. Ellen Kirk had gone to Frith Bank on 19 March 1901 to nurture a woman.
William Enoch King - Frithbank, Boston: William Enoch King was convicted of the murder of his wife Ellen King and sentenced to death but reprieved. His wife had gone to nurse a neighbour and William King conceived an intense jealousy of the neighbour's husband. He argued with his wife about it and then followed her into an outhouse where he cut her throat and almost severed her head from her body.
Thomas Cole Butler - 63 Charlton Lane, Charlton, Woolwich: Thomas Cole Butler was found guilty but insane for the murder of his five children. The children were:
George Heffer - Old Sodbury: George Heffer was convicted of the manslaughter of Henry Waite who he killed on 20 February 1901. George Heffer's wife asked Henry Waite to go in and take something away from George Heffer who was in a bedroom adjoining a kitchen in a workman's lodgings. Henry Waite went into the room followed by another man and was shot. George Heffer then fired two other shots and the other man ran away.
William Scott - Kirktown, St Fergus, Aberdeen: William Scott was on trial for the murder of his wife Jeannie Clark Scott 33 but was found to be insane. He shot her and then attempted to commit suicide.
Octavius Edward Trezise - 74 St Barnabas Street, Wellingborough: Octavius Trezise was convicted of the manslaughter of 4-year-old Agnes Robina Johnson. Octavius Trezise was a chemist but was in feeble health and when he made up a cough mixture for Agnes Johnson he included strychnine by mistake. She died after a single dose.
Emily Barnett - 14 Burgess Road, East Ham: Emily Barnett was on trial for the murder of her husband John Barnett 53 but was found to be insane. She killed him with an axe while he slept on 21 May 1901.
Elizabeth Crocker - Langley New Town, Slough, Buckinghamshire: Elizabeth Crocker was convicted of the manslaughter of her 18-month-old child Alice Maud Crocker. Alice Crocker died from pneumonia and improper food on 21 January 1901. She had been an illegitimate child.
Alfred Cornelius Fairfax - Sunmans Yard, West Street, Hull: Alfred Cornelius Fairfax was convicted of killing his wife Norah Amis. He killed her on 18 June 1901.
Albert Andrew Yallop - St Giles Street, Norwich: Albert Andrew Yallop was convicted of the manslaughter of Frederick William Goldsmith 42. He assaulted him in St Giles Street after asking him to give him a cigarette on Sunday 10 March 1901.
Edgar Bentley - Westbourne Road, Marsh, Huddersfield: Edgar Bentley was on trial for the murder of his friend William Edward Kilner but was found to be insane. He shot him in Huddersfield on 26 March 1901.
Patrick Finnegan - Portland Street, Liverpool: Patrick Finnegan was convicted of the manslaughter of William Carr. They had both been drinking with other relatives in Liverpool when Patrick Finnegan stabbed William Carr in the neck on 24 March 1901 in Portland Street.
Archibald McPherson - Glasgow: Archibald McPherson was convicted of the culpable homicide of a man. He assaulted the man by striking him and knocking him down, whereby his skull was fractured and he was mortally injured, succumbing in the infirmary a week later.
Albert Verdi - Williamson Street, Tunstall: Albert Verdi was charged with intent to murder but was found to be insane. He shot a man in the early hours of Saturday 27 April 1901.
William Goacher - 21 Spring Street, Bury: William Goacher was convicted of the murder of his wife Mary Ann Goacher and sentenced to death but reprieved. They had a drunken quarrel on 6 March 1901 and he put her on the fire. She was taken to hospital with burns but died 23 days later.
John Connelly - 28 Maxwelton Street, Paisley, Scotland: John Connelly was convicted of the culpable homicide of his wife Helen Connelly. He struck her on the head and body with a hatchet at 28 Maxwelton Street, Paisley on 5 or 6 March 1901.
Elizabeth Eastham - Darwen: Elizabeth Eastham was convicted of the manslaughter of her infant child Emily Eastham. Elizabeth Eastham had been a factory operative.
James Harrow - Saltoun Arms Bar, Frederick Street, Aberdeen: James Harrow murdered James Ewing and William K Tastard in the Saltown Arms Bar on 9 January 1901. They were all butchers.
Joseph Arthur Shufflebotham - Folly Lane, Biddulph Moor, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: Joseph Arthur Shufflebotham was convicted of the murder of his wife Elizabeth Shufflebotham 36 and sentenced to death. He cut her throat on 28 December 1900 a year after they married on 28 December 1899, the anniversary of their marriage. They had been married at Biddulph Moor church.
George Gibson - 2 Bothers Close, Brechin, Angus: George Gibson was on trial for the murder of his mother Mrs Gibson but was found to be insane. He cut her throat at their house at 2 Bothers Close, Brechin on 4 January 1901. He had been out drinking on the course of the Thursday but had come home early in the evening and sat for some time before going to bed, without speaking to either his mother or brother, which was said to have not been an uncommon occurrence.
Elizabeth Davis - Glamorgan: Elizabeth Davis was convicted of the manslaughter of her child through neglect due to drink. Her husband was away in South Africa.
Frederick Chamberlain - St Marys Row, Birmingham: Frederick Chamberlain was convicted of the manslaughter of John Evans 63. He said that John Evans had challenged him to a fight and that he had struck him in self-defence.
Herbert John Bennett - Yarmouth Beach: Herbert John Bennett was convicted of the murder of his wife Mary Jane Bennett 24 and sentenced to death. He denied murdering her and at his trial there were several pieces of evidence that indicated that he might not have been the murderer but he was executed anyway.
Minnie Frances Webb - 3 Bradford Street, Cardiff: Minnie Webb was convicted of the murder of her 11-month-old son William George Webb but was found to be insane and ordered to be detained. She cut his throat from ear to ear on 14 December 1900 in Cardiff.
Henry Morgan - 10 Gethin Road, Penygraig, Rhondda Valley: Henry Morgan was convicted of the manslaughter of his wife Mary Morgan 69 who he battered to death. They were both addicted to drink and had been out drinking during the day, 24 December 1900.
George Henry Parker - Wimbledon Station: George Henry Parker was convicted of the murder of William Pearson 43 and sentenced to death. He shot him on a London and South-Western train near Wimbledon, London.
Walter Spencer - Cornhill, Horbury, Wakefield: Walter Spencer was convicted of the manslaughter of his daughter Elizabeth Spencer. He killed her at Horbury near Wakefield on 1 December 1900.
John Hyland - Marthall, Knutsford, Cheshire: John Hyland was convicted of the manslaughter of Martin Mullan. They had been drinking together on 9 February 1901 at Marthall near Knutsford, but on their way home John Hyland attacked Martin Mullan and kicked him. Martin Mullan died two days later.
David Morgan Lewis - Maestag: David Morgan Lewis was convicted of the manslaughter of Elizabeth Charles who he killed in Maestag on 12 January 1901. He had been seen coming from her residence at about midnight and shortly after she was found with stab wounds to her neck and her pocket torn out. She died a week later from pneumonia and shock. The evidence had shown that she was a heavy drinker and that habit had conducted to pneumonia.
Alice Woolridge - Lawley Street, Birmingham: Alice Woolridge was charged with the murder of her newly-born child but was found to be insane. She threw the child into a canal on 14 February 1901. She had given birth to the child that day and later admitted that she had, 'put it in the cut'.
Benjamin Baldwin - 24 Southampton Street, Wolverhampton: Benjamin Baldwin was convicted of the manslaughter of his wife Annie Baldwin. He killed her in a fight on Christmas Eve 1900 whilst drunk.
Joseph Lowe - Holloway Bank, West Bromwich: Joseph Lowe was convicted of the murder of 9-year-old Matilda Coleyshaw and sentenced to death but reprieved. Her body was found in a field near West Bromwich where she had been outraged and suffocated and left to die from exposure.
Harry Burley - Polesworth: Harry Burley was convicted of the attempted murder of his wife. Harry Burley had been a miner, however, he had just lost his position and it was heard that he had attacked his wife in a sudden outburst of passion. He attacked her on 18 January 1901.
Sarah Jane Ashmore - West Bromwich: Sarah Jane Ashmore was on trial for the murder of her sister's 8-week-old child Adelaide Smith but was found to be insane. She admitted killing the child and said, 'That is the knife I did it with. I did it because my brother-in-law was a scamp to my sister'.
Charles Everard Canham - 4 Gorsey Road, Nottingham : Charles Canham murdered his wife Effie Elizabeth Canham 45 and his son Donal David Canham 3 in Nottingham on 30 November 1900. However, he was found to have been insane at the time. He slit his sons throat and beat his wife around the head with a coal hammer.
Thomas Craig - Togston Crescent, Broomhill, Warkworth: Thomas Craig was convicted of the manslaughter of his wife Margaret Craig who he killed on 1 January 1901. They had been out drinking together and when they got home he felled her to the ground and kicked her in the bowels.
David Ewart - 7 Laygate Court, South Shields: David Ewart was convicted of the manslaughter of Mary Gallagher (aka Mary Ann Rothwell) who he killed on 6 December 1900. He threw a lighted paraffin lamp at her and set her on fire.
Annie Hanna - 12 Streatham Street, West Hartlepool: Annie Hanna was convicted of the manslaughter of her 3-year-old child Mary Hanna. Mary Hanna died from burns that she received whilst left with several other little children in the house at 12 Streatham Street on Saturday 5 January 1901.
Thomas Straw - Back Lane, Tibshelf: Thomas Straw was convicted of the manslaughter of his wife Ann Straw 56. She died on 28 December 1900 from neglect. The court heard that their house was in a filthy condition and the bedding was in a shocking state.
William Wopling - 99 Graham Street, Derby: William Wopling was convicted of the manslaughter of Mary Jane Moore 52. Mary Moore's husband had been dead for six years and William Wopling had been lodging with her for twelve years and worked at the Midland Railway Works.
Isaac Robert Jones and Lydia Emma Jones - 28 Parr Street, Shoreditch, London: Lydia Emma Jones and Isaac Robert Jones were convicted of the manslaughter of 5-year-old Ethel Caroline Jones. Lydia Jones and Isaac Jones lodged in two rooms at 28 Parr Street with their four children aged 14, 12, 5 and 3. They had been there for about two years.
Rose Sumner - Groombridge, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent: Rose Sumner was convicted of the murder of her illegitimate child and sentenced to death but reprieved. She gave birth to the child on 1 December 1900 and on 1 January 1901 she left home saying that she was going to take the child to the mother of its father in Tunbridge Wells saying that she had promised to adopt it. However, the child's body was found in a pond three weeks later.
James Maloney - 6 House, 9 Court, Blenheim Street, Liverpool: James Maloney killed Margaret Roxburgh 37 in a drunken quarrel. They were at a carousal when they started to argue over a letter sent from James Maloney's brother who was serving at the front. When Margaret Roxburgh taunted James Maloney with loafing at home instead of being at the war he attacked her with a knife killing her.
Samson Silas Salmon - 23 Venour Road, Bow, London: Samson Silas Salmon was convicted of the murder of his cousin Lucy Smith 32 and sentenced to death. He cut her throat at 23 Venour Road, Bow, London on Saturday 16 December, 1900.
Richard Hopcroft - Paternoster Farm, Yarnton, Kidlington, Oxfordshire: Richard Hopcroft was convicted of the manslaughter of William Savage 72. He shot him dead at Paternoster Farm, Yarnton on 16 November 1900.
Thomas Tape - Launcells, Stratton, Bude, Cornwall: Thomas Tape was convicted of the manslaughter of his wife Mary Jane Tape. Mary Tape died on 6 December 1900.
Barnet Abrahams - Commercial Road, Whitechapel, London: Barnet Abrahams was convicted of the manslaughter of Ernest Thompson. Ernest Thompson was a police constable.
Marie Curry - Old Gravel Lane Bridge, St Georges, London: Marie Curry was found guilty but insane for the murder of her infant son Charles Curry. She threw him in the river at Old Gravel Lane Bridge on 4 January 1901 at 6am and then jumped in herself. A man that had been passing jumped in and pulled her out.
John Edward Cossey - Chapel Yard, Stokesby, Norfolk: John Edward Cossey was convicted of the murder of Thirza Kelly 27 and sentenced to death but reprieved. He broke into her house in Chapel Yard, Stokesby in the early hours of 24 December 1900 and went into her bedroom where she was sleeping with her baby and stabbed her multiple times with a knife.
Lucy Simons - Lincoln: Lucy Simons was convicted of the attempted murder of her newly-born child. She was sentenced to three years but the sentence was later reduced to 6 months by the Secretary of State upon the condition that she go to and remain for a year in the Cleever House of Mercy, where arrangements had been made for her reception.
John Aaron Walker - Raywell Street, Hull: John Aaron Walker was convicted of the murder of his father, also called John Aaron Walker, and was sentence to death but reprieved. He stabbed him in the chest killing him almost instantly.
Charles Francis Heritage - West Street, St Martins Lane, London: Charles Francis Heritage was convicted of the manslaughter of Alfred Clarke Fisher. Alfred Fisher was a runner up of horses for sale. On 1 December 1900 he was in the Prince Albert pub on St Martins Lane when Charles Heritage, a coffee house keeper came in with another man.
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