Age: 27
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 1 Jan 1889
Execution Place: Stafford
Method: hanging
Executioner: James Berry
Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20070624062456/http://www.fred.net/jefalvey/execute.h
Twenty seven year old Clewes was a collier who was convicted, at Staffordshire Assizes, of the murder of Mary Jane Bovell. Clewes and Miss Bovell lived together at Washerwall, near Stoke, but during the summer their relationship grew strained when he became jealous of her seeing someone else. One night in September he lay in wait, then attacked her with a hatchet. He was convicted and sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out on the 1st January 1889 by James Berry in Stafford.
