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.
They each had children from previous marriages, Joseph Shufflebotham having five children and Elizabeth Shufflebotham having four children.
Joseph Shufflebotham had been a collier and had lived at Robin Hill.
see National Archives - ASSI 6/36/5, HO 144/569/A62492
see Homicide 1901
