A Compendium: 1901-2000 William Wright. Introduction. Contents. 1901–1910 1901 Murder on the Sands: Herbert John Bennett 1902 The Tottenham Horror: George Woolfe 1903 The Body in the Moat: Samuel Herbert Dougal 1904 The Stepney Murder ...
A History of Capital Punishment in Britain Gary Dobbs. Herbert John Bennett, age 22, convicted of the murder of his wife Mary Jane. Executed at Norwich, 21 March 1901. Hangman: James Billington. Joseph Arthur Shufflebotham, age 38 ...
... Herbert John Bennett Strangled his wife on a Yarmouth beach 1901 Ralph & Caroline Dyer Took part in a murder to avenge the alleged rape of Caroline Murdered Amy Russell 1901 Ernest Walter Wickham 1901 Maud Eddington 1901 Horos Scandal ...
... BENNETT, HERBERT JOHN Wife murderer whose execution at Norwich in 1901 was marked by the breaking of the mast flying the prison's black flag. This was interpreted by some as a token of the hanged man's innocence. Twenty-year-old Bennett ...
... MURDERS Herbert John Bennett was hanged for the murder of his estranged wife , Mary , at Norwich Prison on 21 March 1901 ; he proclaimed his innocence throughout the trial , and went to the gallows in silence . Mrs Mary Jane Bennett had ...
... 1901 and his death in harness on February 23 , 1927 , he appeared in a great many of the most celebrated criminal trials of the period Herbert John Bennett , the Yarmouth Beach Murder ( 1901 ) , Robert Wood , the Camden Town Murder ...
... murder . The earliest of these was that known as the Yarmouth Murder . The crime was committed on Saturday , February 22nd , 1901. The prisoner's name was Herbert John Bennett , and the deceased was his wife whom he had married some ...
... 1901. Former greengrocer , salesman . Yarmouth , England ; 1 murder ... murder and other clothes bearing the telltale “ 599 ” laundry mark . The trial , moved from Yarmouth to London's Old Bailey ... BENNETT 17 Bennett, Herbert John.
... London, 1951 Storey, Neil R., A Grim Almanac of Norfolk, Stroud, 2003 Wallace, Edgar (intro. by), The Trial of Herbert John Bennett, London, 1929 NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS Cambridge Chronicle Cambridge Independent Press East Anglian.
... murder of wife ; Chelmsford , 12 July , 1998 Ernest Wickham ( 30 ) , clerk , murder of Amy Russell in the street at Brixton ; Wandsworth , 18 July , " 13 Aug. 1901 ... John Joyce , murder of an old man , John Nugent ; Birmingham 20 Aug.