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For decades the high walls of Durham gaol have contained some of the countrys most infamous criminals. Until hanging was abolished in the 1960s it was also the main centre of execution for convicted killers from all over the north east. The history of execution within the walls of Durham Gaol began with the hanging of two labourers side by side in 1869, by the notorious hangman William Calcraft. Over the next ninety years a total of seventy-seven people took the short walk to the gallows - including poisoner Mary Cotton, who for over a century was the worst mass murderer in Great Britain, Gatesheads copycat Jack the Ripper, William Waddell, army deserter Brian Chandler, nineteen-year-old Edward Anderson, who murdered his blind uncle, a Teeside dock worker hanged on Christmas Eve, Carlisle muderer John Vickers, the first man hanged under the 1957 Homocide Act, and a South African sailor who preferred death to ten years in prison. Infamous executionors also played a part in the gaols history - Calcraft, who preferred slow strangulation, Marwood, the pioneer of the long drop, bungling Bartholomew Binns, the Billingtons, the Pierrepoint family, and Doncaster hangman Stephen Wade. Steve Fieldings highly readable new book features each of the seventy-five cases in one volume for the first time and is fully illustrated with photographs, news cuttings and engravings. It is bound to appeal to anyone interested in the darker side of County Durhams history.

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H ANGED AT

D URHAM

S TEVE F IELDING

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First published in 2007 by Sutton Publishing Limited

Reprinted in 2008 by

The History Press

The Mill, Brimscombe Port

Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL 5 2 QG

www.thehistorypress.co.uk

Reprinted 2009, 2013

This ebook edition first published in 2013

All rights reserved

Steve Fielding, 2007, 2013

The right of Steve Fielding to be identified as the Author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

This ebook is copyright material and must not be copied, reproduced, transferred, distributed, leased, licensed or publicly performed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writing by the publishers, as allowed under the terms and conditions under which it was purchased or as strictly permitted by applicable copyright law. Any unauthorised distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the authors and publishers rights, and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly.

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CONTENTS

A Fatal Decision
John Dolan, 22 March 1869

The Darlington Fenian Murder
John McConville, 22 March 1869

Hanged Side by Side
John Hayes and Hugh Slane, 13 January 1873

The First Female Serial Killer
Mary Ann Cotton, 24 March 1873

An Uncontrollable Temper
Charles Dawson, 5 January 1874

A Small Bottle of Porter
Edward Gough, 5 January 1874

For Her Love...
William Thompson, 5 January 1874

A Question of Provocation
Hugh Daley, 28 December 1874

Murder on Easter Sunday
Michael Gilligan, 2 August 1875

The Body in the River
William McHugh, 2 August 1875

A Poison of Mice and Men
Elizabeth Pearson, 2 August 1875

The Heavy Drinker
John Williams, 26 July 1876

The Premonition
Robert Vest, 30 July 1878

A Gruesome End to a Gruesome Crime
William Brownless, 16 November 1880

To Escape the Torture of Gaol
Thomas Fury, 16 May 1882

A Botched Execution
James Burton, 6 August 1883

The Strikebreaker
Peter Bray, 24 November 1883

Death on Duty
Joseph Lowson, 28 May 1884

The Gateshead Ripper
William Waddell, 18 December 1888

The Wedding Day Murder
John Johnson, 22 December 1891

The Last-Minute Confession
Charles Smith, 22 March 1898

Murder on the Beach
John Bowes, 12 December 1900

The Result of a Petty Theft
John Thompson, 10 December 1901

As Red as Guilty Blood
Thomas Nicholson, 16 December 1902

Payment with a Bullet
Samuel Thomas Walton, 16 December 1902

Immoral Earnings
James Duffy, 8 December 1903

More than Anything Else in the World
George Breeze, 2 August 1904

I Killed Her... I Will Swing for Her
Robert William Lawman, 24 March 1908

You Might Break My Neck...
Joseph William Noble, 24 March 1908

The Right to an Appeal
Matthew John Dodds, 5 August 1908

Murder at West Stanley
Jeremiah OConnor, 23 February 1909

The Chopwell Tragedy
Abel Atherton, 8 December 1909

Dear Tommy...
Thomas Craig, 12 July 1910

With Necessary Intent?
Robert Upton, 24 March 1914

The Confessor
Frank Steele, 11 August 1915

An Axe for the Lady, a Razor for Me
Joseph Deans, 20 December 1916

For She Was a Dead Wrong Woman
William Hall, 23 March 1920

The Old Soldier
James Riley, 30 November 1920

Delayed in the Post
James Williamson, 21 March 1922

The Uninvited Guest
Daniel Cassidy, 3 April 1923

The Hand that Fired the Gun
Hassan Muhamed, 8 August 1923

The Fatal Note
Matthew Frederick Atkinson Nunn, 2 January 1924

A Life for a Life 54
Henry Graham, 15 April 1925

The Break-Up
Thomas Henry Shelton, 15 April 1925

The Jealous Man
James Smith, 10 August 1926

A Faked Suicide
John Dunn, 6 January 1928

The Tall Man
Norman Elliott, 10 August 1928

The Grandson
Charles Conlin, 4 January 1929

A Man to Avoid
James Johnson, 7 August 1929

The Family Feud
Ernest Wadge Parker, 6 December 1933

That Confounded Money
John Stephenson Bainbridge, 9 May 1935

The Bonfire Party
George Hague, 16 July 1935

The Persistent Thief
Christopher Jackson, 16 December 1936

Circumstantial Evidence
Robert William Hoolhouse, 26 May 1938

Suicide or Murder?
William Parker, 26 July 1938

The Full Moon Killer
John Daymond, 8 February 1939

Let Him Have It!
William Appleby and Vincent Ostler, 11 July 1940

Telltale Specks of Blood
John Wright, 10 September 1940

Hanged on Christmas Eve
Edward Scollen, 24 December 1940

Double Standards
Henry Lyndo White, 6 March 1941

Swift Justice
Edward Walker Anderson, 31 July 1941

The Trophy Killer
William Ambrose Collins, 28 October 1942

Murder at the Aerodrome
Sydney James Delasalle, 13 April 1944

The Wrong Girl
Charles Edward Prescott, 5 March 1946

The Eternal Triangle
Arthur Charles, 26 March 1946

A Lover Spurned
Benjamin Roberts, 14 December 1949

The Animal
John Wilson, 14 December 1949

The North Shields Strangler
George Finlay Brown, 11 July 1950

A Strange Affair
John Walker, 13 July 1950

Death Wish
Patrick Turnage, 14 November 1950

Death of a Mistress
Tahir Ali, 21 March 1952

Jumping to the Wrong Conclusion
Herbert Appleby, 24 December 1952

The Homicide Act
John Willson Vickers, 23 July 1957

Capital Murder?
Frank Stokes, 3 September 1958

The Deserter
Brian Chandler, 17 December 1958

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This book would not have been possible but for the help of a number of people. My thanks go to Lisa Moore for help with proofreading and editing the various drafts; to Matthew Spicer for his unselfish help with information and photographs, and for assisting in the many hours of research at The National Archives at Kew; to Tim Leech, who kindly opened his archives and supplied many illustrations and rare documents; to Valerie Robinson at Her Majestys Prison Durham for help on historical information; to Janet Buckingham for supplying information on a number of cases and for helping with data input and proofreading; and to Stewart Evans for advice on this project.

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