Tag: Gloucester

• Herbert Rowse Armstrong – A Poisonous Plymothian

    Herbert Rowse Armstrong, the only British lawyer to be hanged for murder,   Next up in a parade of deliberately-forgotten Plymouth folk is Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong. Retired Army Major, former MP for Plymouth, respectable small-town lawyer, embezzler, fraudster, repeat poisoner and one of Britain’s most notorious murderers. His case isn’t especially memorable in…

  CrimeScribe

  May 26, 2014

  True Crime, Uncategorized

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