This is a new paperback version for 2011. It includes absorbing
real life accounts of nearly every reported murder that took place
in Tyneside during the twentieth century. It features well-known
cases and those which are lesser known but equally fascinating
tales of jealousy, revenge and tragedy. The city of Newcastle and
its immediate environs of Jarrow, North and South Shields and the
outlying towns, have seen some most intriguing murder cases.
Perhaps the most famous of all is that of the murder of John Innes
Nisbet by John Alexander Dickman, for which the latter was hanged
in August 1910. Yet there are others in the pages of this book
whose stories are equally fascinating. You will read of the two
Millers, hanged 90 minutes apart on the same day for what was a
senseless crime. Or consider Thomas Craig, a man determined to
avenge himself on the woman who had spurned him; of William Ambrose
Collins who brutally murdered a WAAF during the war years. Capital
punishment is a very emotive subject and this book is not intended
to argue the case either for, or against. The facts are told and it
is up to the reader to decide for themselves whether the hanging of
these killers served any purpose beyond judicial revenge.
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