On this day
19 January
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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.
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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.