Samuel Herbert Dougal
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Samuel Herbert Dougal, a notorious womanising convicted forger, was an English soldier who used his medal-winning administrative skills to ill effect. He married three times, and the first two wives d
Samuel Dougal, pictured with Georgina Cranwell, c. 1902
Camille Cecile Holland, circa 1870
Moat House Farm, Clavering, Essex in 2021, aerial shot.
William Billington
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William Billington was an English executioner. He was on the Home Office list from 1902 to 1905 and had participated in hangings from 1899.
Samuel Herbert Dougal
…unanimous verdict of the jury, Dougal was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death by Mr Justice Wright. He was hanged by the public executioner William Billington at Chelmsford Prison on 14 July 1903. Dougal, Samuel Herbert (1941) "The confession of a murderer"; The Saturday Book; 1941-42; ed. by Leonard Russell…
William Billington