British Executions

John Esmond Murphy

Age: 21

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 6 Jan 1909

Crime Location: Office of Cartnell and Schlitte, 84 Shaftesbury Avenue, London

Execution Place: Pentonville

Method: hanging

Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/

John Esmond Murphy was convicted of the murder of Frederick George Wilhelm Maria Julius Schlitte 47 and sentenced to death.

He stabbed and shot him in the office of Cartnell and Schlitte, 84 Shaftesbury Avenue, London on 7 November 1908.

see National Archives - HO 144/898/173376

see Homicide 1909