Age: 32
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 18 Jun 1895
Execution Place: Wandsworth
Method: hanging
Executioner: James Billington
Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20070624062456/http://www.fred.net/jefalvey/execute.h
Thirty two year old James Canning was a Jersey born army pensioner sentenced to death by Baron Pollock on 27th May at the Old Bailey, for the murder of his sweetheart Jane Youell. James Canning worked as a male nurse and lodged with Youell's parents at Bermondsey. They had a jealous quarrel one night around Easter and he cut her throat. He was hanged by James Billington and Thomas Scott in Wandsworth on the 18th June 1895.
