1911 : John Pluckrose is Charged with Killing his Wife

Source: Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, 3,594 3c
Date:  9 October 1911
Place: London

OLD BAILEY CALENDAR

Six Charges of Murder in an Exceptionally Heavy List.

There is a exceptionally heavy list - not only numerically, but in regard to the gravity of the offences charged - of prisoners for trial at the October Sessions, which open on Tuesday (10 October 1911).

Included in the judges’ list are no fewer than six charged of murder and one of attempted murder, besides other serious cases. Fredk. Hy. Thomas, commission agent, is accused of the murder, in tragic circumstances, of Annie Eckhardt, the wife of a German sailor, by cutting her throat, at her lodgings at East Greenwich. George Hill stands committed for the alleged murder of Daniel Collins, by stabbing him with a “Boxer dagger,” at Hackney; John Pluckrose is charged with killing his wife, by shooting her in the neck, at Cubitt Town; while the remaining capital charges are cases of alleged infanticide preferred against women

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