1935: David Maskill Blake, wedding’s eve murderer
February 7th, 2020 Headsman
Blake was a 29 year old unemployed steel erector who married Jenny Whitehead on the 17th of October 1934 at a Leeds Registry Office.
On that same day, the body of 23 year old Emily Yeomans was discovered in Middleton Woods in West Yorkshire …
-From the February 7, 2020 Facebook post of the Capital Punishment UK Facebook page. Click through to the comments for a link to the Leeds Mercury extravaganza report of his trial and conviction.
On this day..
- 1391: Agnese Visconti and Antonio da Scandiano, adulterous lovers? - 2019
- 1885: August Reinsdorf and Emil Kuchler, Kaiser Wilhelm I bombers - 2018
- 1940: Peter Barnes and James McCormack, the last IRA men hanged - 2017
- 1896: Benjamin Ratcliff, school shooter - 2016
- 1545: Cornelis Appelman and Willem Zeylmaker, Batenburgers - 2015
- 1931: The Longhua Martyrs and the Five Martyrs of the League of Left-Wing Writers - 2014
- 1902: Privates Edmond Dubose and Lewis Russell, deserters to the Philippine Resistance - 2013
- 1579: Thomas Sherwood, Catholic martyr - 2012
- 1714: Various rebel slaves in the Cape Colony - 2011
- 1852: Martin Merino, Jesuit assassin - 2010
- 1920: The White Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak - 2009
- 1868: Susan, a 13-year-old - 2008
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,England,Execution,Hanged,Murder,Rape
Tags: 1930s, 1935, david blake, february 7, leeds
