She was found guilty of his murder, a plea of insanity was rejected, and she was sentenced to death.
John Newell and Susan Newell were accused of the murder by throttling of a thirteen year old boy, John Johnstone in Coatbridge, Glasgow, 1923.
Susan Newell - a senseless murder. Susan Newell was born in 1893 and lived a hard life in poverty in a rented apartment in Coatbridge near Glasgow. She...
Classification: Murderer · Number of victims: 1 · Date of birth: 1 893 · Method of murder: Strangulation · Status: Executed by hanging at Duke Street Prison in ...
In June 1923 she had assaulted her husband John giving him two heavy blows to the head which he reported to the police. The following day they had another ...
Susan Newell. Susan Newell (1893 – 10 October 1923) was the last woman to be hanged as capital punishment in Scotland. She was arrested after acting ...
Dec 8, 2014 · The counsel then tried to argue that the murder of John Johnston was not premeditated but a spur-of-the-moment act in the midst of an argument.
File GB 248 GUA FM/2B/15 contains production reports, post mortem notes, scrapbooks, and press cuttings. Case against John Newell and Susan Newell: Murder of ...
Oct 14, 2018 · Susan Newell was hanged in one of Glasgow's most notorious prisons following the brutal murder of a 13-year-old paperboy almost 100 years ...
Apr 4, 2022 · In today's extended Glasgow Crime Story, we focus on the last woman to be hanged in Scotland after the chilling murder of a 13-year-old boy.