James Honeyands

James Honeyands was convicted of the murder of Amelia Bradfield 18 and sentenced to death.

He shot her outside the Courtney Arms public house in Courtney Street, Plymouth on 18 October 1913 and she died ten days later on 28 October 1913.

James Honeyands was a stoker in the Royal Navy having entered the navy in 1910 as a second-class stoker and soon rising to the rank of first-class stoker, and around Christmas 1912 he made the acquaintance of Amelia Bradfield who was the wife of another stoker aboard the China Station.

James Honeyands later arranged with Amelia Bradfield's mother to lodge at their home in Stonehouse Lane in Plymouth at the weekends, paying 5/- a week. That arrangement continued for some time and it was thought possible that James Honeyands might have been intimate with Amelia Bradfield, although her mother denied it and said that she had repudiated James Honeyands suggestion that he should 'live' with Amelia Bradfield.