About: John Dickman     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : yago:WikicatEnglishPeopleExecutedByHanging, within Data Space : dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FJohn_Dickman&invfp=IFP_OFF&sas=SAME_AS_OFF

John Alexander Dickman (17 May 1864 – 10 August 1910) was an Englishman hanged for murder. He was convicted of the murder of John Innes Nisbet, which took place on a train travelling between Newcastle railway station and Alnmouth railway station, on 18 March 1910. Nisbet had been carrying a bag containing the wages for a colliery. His body was discovered in a train compartment in a full-width compartment carriage (with no aisle and no corridor); he had died of five gunshot wounds to the head and his bag had been stolen along with over £300 of colliery wages that were never recovered although the near empty bag was found in a local mineshaft with only a few coins inside.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • John Dickman (de)
  • John Dickman (en)
rdfs:comment
  • John Alexander Dickman (* 17. Mai 1864; † 10. August 1910) war ein Engländer, der wegen Mordes erhängt wurde. Dickman wurde wegen Mordes an John Nisbet, der während einer Zugfahrt am 18. März 1910 zwischen Newcastle-on-Tyne und Alnmouth verübt wurde, verurteilt. Nisbet wurde vom Schaffner mit fünf Schusswunden in einem Zugabteil tot gefunden; seine Tasche war gestohlen.Am 6. Juli desselben Jahres wurde Dickman verurteilt und am 10. August gehängt, obwohl es Zweifel gab. Der Schriftsteller gehörte zu denjenigen, die von Dickmans Unschuld überzeugt waren. (de)
  • John Alexander Dickman (17 May 1864 – 10 August 1910) was an Englishman hanged for murder. He was convicted of the murder of John Innes Nisbet, which took place on a train travelling between Newcastle railway station and Alnmouth railway station, on 18 March 1910. Nisbet had been carrying a bag containing the wages for a colliery. His body was discovered in a train compartment in a full-width compartment carriage (with no aisle and no corridor); he had died of five gunshot wounds to the head and his bag had been stolen along with over £300 of colliery wages that were never recovered although the near empty bag was found in a local mineshaft with only a few coins inside. (en)
foaf:depiction
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Metropolitan_Railway_Full_3rd_Coach_No.394.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Midland_Railway_composite_carriage_1885.jpg
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
Link from a Wikipage to an external page
sameAs
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
thumbnail
has abstract
  • John Alexander Dickman (* 17. Mai 1864; † 10. August 1910) war ein Engländer, der wegen Mordes erhängt wurde. Dickman wurde wegen Mordes an John Nisbet, der während einer Zugfahrt am 18. März 1910 zwischen Newcastle-on-Tyne und Alnmouth verübt wurde, verurteilt. Nisbet wurde vom Schaffner mit fünf Schusswunden in einem Zugabteil tot gefunden; seine Tasche war gestohlen.Am 6. Juli desselben Jahres wurde Dickman verurteilt und am 10. August gehängt, obwohl es Zweifel gab. Der Schriftsteller gehörte zu denjenigen, die von Dickmans Unschuld überzeugt waren. Der Fall wurde 1976 Episode Murder on the 10.27 in der britischen Fernsehserie Second Verdict aufgerollt, in der historische Kriminalfälle von fiktionalen Ermittlern neu untersucht wurden, darunter die Entführung des Lindbergh-Babys und der Reichstagsbrand. (de)
  • John Alexander Dickman (17 May 1864 – 10 August 1910) was an Englishman hanged for murder. He was convicted of the murder of John Innes Nisbet, which took place on a train travelling between Newcastle railway station and Alnmouth railway station, on 18 March 1910. Nisbet had been carrying a bag containing the wages for a colliery. His body was discovered in a train compartment in a full-width compartment carriage (with no aisle and no corridor); he had died of five gunshot wounds to the head and his bag had been stolen along with over £300 of colliery wages that were never recovered although the near empty bag was found in a local mineshaft with only a few coins inside. On 6 July Dickman was convicted by a Jury of the murder of Nisbet, Dickman's legal team launched an immediate but failed Court of Appeal July appeal. The Home Secretary, Winston Churchill refused to intervene and Dickman was hanged in Newcastle Prison on 10 August, the last man to be hanged in a Newcastle jail. There was some doubt over the conviction, as it appeared to some people to rest on inconclusive identification evidence. There was a campaign for him to be reprieved, with leaflets distributed in stations. The writer C. H. Norman was among those who were convinced of John Dickman's innocence. It has also been claimed that Dickman's defence lawyer was incompetent. The case is not widely remembered today. However it did figure in the 1976 BBC television series Second Verdict, the 2008 television programme Nightwatch and the 2018 BBC television series Murder, Mystery and My Family (and Case Closed?). The latter programmes suggested that two witnesses who said they saw Dickman and Nisbet entering the same compartment may even have been the real killers. In 2021, the case was the subject of episode 4 of Railway Murders. Two episodes of the radio show The Black Museum hosted by Orson Welles were based on Dickman's case. One, "The Tan Shoes" featured Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson. However it has been suggested that Dickman was also guilty of two previous murders, of Caroline Mary Luard at Ightham, Kent in 1908 and Hermann Cohen in Sunderland in 1909. (en)
gold:hypernym
schema:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
page length (characters) of wiki page
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of
is Wikipage redirect of
is Wikipage disambiguates of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (378 GB total memory, 60 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software