Age: 38
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 2 Apr 1901
Crime Location: Folly Lane, Biddulph Moor, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Execution Place: Stafford
Method: hanging
Executioner: James Billington
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Joseph Arthur Shufflebotham was convicted of the murder of his wife Elizabeth Shufflebotham 36 and sentenced to death.
He cut her throat on 28 December 1900 a year after they married on 28 December 1899, the anniversary of their marriage. They had been married at Biddulph Moor church.
see National Archives - ASSI 6/36/5, HO 144/569/A62492
see Homicide 1901