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Jeffrey Bloomfied
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Username: Mayerling

Post Number: 282
Registered: 2-2003

Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2004 - 11:32 pm:

According to Boase's MODERN ENGLISH BIOGRAPHY
VOL. V , col.148, a tramp named Martin Doyle was the last man to be hanged for wounding with intent to kill in Great Britain. He tried to kill his common-law wife, Jane Brogine with rocks near Linley lane Tollgate near Walthall on 30 May 1861. He was tried at the Chester assizes 8 August 1861, found guilty, and hanged at Chester on 27 August 1861. The TIMES of London had an account of his trial on 9 August 1861 on page 9.

Jeff

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