Samuel Herbert Dougal

Age: 57

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 14 Jul 1903

Crime Location: Moat House Farm, Clavering, Essex

Execution Place: Chelmsford

Method: hanging

Executioner: William Billington

Source: http://www.robshistory.co.uk/Samuel-Herbert-Dougal.php

Samuel Herbert Dougal was convicted of the murder of Camille Cecile Holland and sentenced to death.

He killed her on 19 May 1899 but was not arrested until 1903 when his affairs were looked into after he was arrested for forgery following an affiliation order for an illegitimate child he had had with a maid that had been employed at his farm. During the investigation a drainage ditch was dug up at his home, Moat Farm, and the body of Camille Holland was found with a bullet in her head.

see National Archives - MEPO 3/159B, PCOM 8/38

see Essex Police

see Wikipedia

see Murderpedia

see Saffron Waldon Historical Society

see Essex Live

see Historic England

see Essex Highways

see Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald - Saturday 11 July 1903

see Barking, East Ham & Ilford Advertiser, Upton Park and Dagenham Gazette - Saturday 20 June 1903

see Daily Telegraph & Courier (London) - Friday 20 March 1903

see Gloucestershire Echo - Friday 22 May 1903