Tag: Staffordshire

• William Frederick Horry – England’s first ‘long drop’ hanging.

  

  His name isn’t going to ring any bells with many readers, I know, but Horry (an otherwise unexceptional murderer) occupies a singular place in the chronicles of crime. Horry met, fell in love with and married wife (and victim) Jane in 1866 and the couple went on to run a hotel together in Burslem, Staffordshire…

  CrimeScribe

  April 22, 2021

  History, True Crime

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