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  • Vincent Knowles Walker of 21 Union Street, Kingston-upon-Hull, master joiner, 48

    Date: 15 Apr 1878

    Crime:
    Murder of Lydia Wills White, wife of a master mariner and smack owner, at 37 Nile Street, Kingston-upon-Hull, on 18 Feb 1878.

    Walker's estranged wife was lodging with Lydia White at the time of the murder and Walker believed that White was blocking his access to her.

    Leeds Mercury, 28 Mar 1878. Daily News, 16 Apr 1878.

  • William Ross, 19

    Date: 17 Aug 1850

    Crime:
    Murder of his wife, Mary Ross, daughter of William Bottomley, at her father's house at Roughton, near Ashton-under-Lyne, on 30 May 1850 by arsenic poisoning.

    The Chaplain at York Castle Gaol reported that he died protesting his innocence. Several newspapers cast doubt on the soundness of the conviction before his execution and used the case as an argument for the abolition of capital punishment.

    Chaplain's Journal: 17 Aug 1850. Leeds Mercury, 27 Jul 1850. Daily News, 14 Aug 1850. Derby Mercury, 21 Aug 1850. Manchester Times, 21 Aug 1850.

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