Age: 24
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 9 May 1935
Execution Place: Durham
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C4165923
John Stephenson Bainbridge murdered Edward Frederick Herdman 75 by battering him and cutting his throat at 47 Salisbury Place, Bishop Auckland on 31 December 1934.
John Bainbridge, a soldier, was friends with the daughter of Edward Herdman. She stated that she and John Bainbridge left her father in the house at 7.55pm noting that the clock was 10 minutes fast. Edward Herdman was supposed to be murdered between 7.50 and 9.50pm. The judge noted that if that were true and the clock were not fast then John Bainbridge was innocent. The case was known as the Ten Minute Alibi.
