SinisterCrimes

On this day

19 January

  1. 1922

    Armstrong is charged with his wife's murder.

    Herbert Rowse Armstrong Executed

    'Excuse fingers': a Hay-on-Wye solicitor handed his rival a buttered scone, and the arsenic trail led back to his wife's grave.

  2. 1931

    A caller calling himself R. M. Qualtrough leaves a message for Wallace at the Liverpool Central Chess Club.

    William Herbert Wallace Disputed verdict

    A phone message sent a Liverpool insurance man to an address that did not exist. He came home to find his wife dead, and was sentenced to hang.