Age: 50
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 24 Mar 1914
Crime Location: 42 Stanley Street, Jarrow-on-Tyne
Execution Place: Durham
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4151675
Robert Upton was convicted of the murder of Charles Gribben 64 and sentenced to death.
He cut his throat at 42 Stanley Street in Jarrow on 21 December 1913.
Robert Upton was a labourer.
Charles Gribben was a caller-up and lived in a room at 42 Stanley Street. He had made the acquaintance three years earlier of a married woman who had been parted from her husband for twenty years. About 18 months earlier the woman became Charles Gribben’s housekeeper and moved in with him, living and sleeping with him at 42 Stanley Street.
see National Archives - HO 144/1308/249449
see Homicide 1914
