Age: 43
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 7 Aug 1929
Crime Location: 68 Cannon Street, Newcastle
Execution Place: Durham
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C4166310
James Johnson murdered his wife Mary Annie Johnson at 68 Cannon Street, Newcastle on 12 May 1929. He cut her throat.
They lived in a tennented building at 68 Cannon Street, Newcastle in which they occupied three room, a kitchen, and two bedrooms.
see National Archives - HO 144/11357, ASSI 45/89/5, PCOM 9/276
