British Executions

Joseph Arthur Shufflebotham

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