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Hello
Does anyone have access to Newspaper articles please?
Joseph Barton Machin murdered Gladys Stennett in 1935 in Wakefield Yorkshire. Im looking for any possible info on this please including date of death if possible.
Her death record shows her as being 17yrs of age on death.
Many thanks
Cassie
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Deaths Jun 1935 (>99%)
Stennett Gladys 17 Wakefield 9c 12
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Births Sep 1910
MACHIN Joseph B Wakefield 9c 15
Deaths Jun 1935 (>99%)
Machin Joseph B 25 Wakefield 9c 12
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Thanks Maylon.
It appears that Josephs mmn was Stennett so they were related. Ill look into thst.
Cassie :-)
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I don't have a sub to the British Newspaper Archive , to see the full reports, but there are these reports.
It looks like the date was probably 13 June 1935.
CROFTON DOUBLE TRAGEDY OF YOUNG COUSINS
... 17-year-old girl—were the victims of a double tragedy at the village of Crofton, near Wakefield, yesterday. The girl, Gladys Stennett (17), was found with a piece of string round her neck under some bushes near her uncle's allotment garden. Later Joe Barham ...
Published: Friday 14 June 1935
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 337 | Page: 1 | Tags: none
THE INQUEST
... jealous luver disclosed at the Inquest at on Gladys Stennett, and her cousin Joseph Machin. I[ll Machin's father said that liis son had said if Gladys did not many him soon he would mad. The girl's mother said Gladys stayed in the bouse several iiiciii. before ...
Published: Thursday 20 June 1935
Newspaper: Illustrated Police News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 91 | Page: 2 | Tags: none
TRAGEDY OF LOVERS
... on Thursday, her lover was found dead hanging from a tree in a field half mile away. The victims of the tragedv are Gladys Stennett and Joseph B (24), platelayer. The couple had been keeping company but had recently had a difference. Machin Thursday ...
Published: Wednesday 19 June 1935
Newspaper: Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 137 | Page: 3 | Tags: none
FEARED HER LOVER
... murdered Miss Stennett, and hanged himself a fit of jealousy. George Machin, father of the dead man, said that about a fortnight ago his son said he was 44 madly in love with Gladys, and if she did not marry him soon he would mad. Ada Stennett, of Darton ...
Published: Wednesday 19 June 1935
Newspaper: Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: 2 | Tags: none
VILLAGE TRAGEDIES OF HANGING AND STRANGLING
... VILLAGE OF CROFTON, NEAR 1 WAKEFIELD, WAS THE SCENE OF A DOUBLE TRAGEDY YESTERDAY. THE BODY OF GLADYS STENNETT (17), WHO HAD LIVED WITH HER UNCLE JOSEPH STENNETT, A RETIRED PLATELAYER, OF CROFTON, WAS FOUND IN AN ALLOTMENT GARDEN A SHORT DISTANCE FROM HER ...
Published: Friday 14 June 1935
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 350 | Page: 12 | Tags: none
TWO-FOLD TRAGEDY
... three miles from Wakefield. yesterday. Late in the afternoon the body of a young woman named Gladys Stennett, aged 17, who resided with her uncle, Joseph Stennett, a retired platelayer, of Crofton, was found in an allotment garden a short distance from her ...
Published: Friday 14 June 1935
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 317 | Page: 9 | Tags: none
TOO ILL TO BE HANGED
... Crofton, about three miles from Makefield, on Thursday. Late in the afternoon a young girl named Gladys Stennett, aged 17, who resided with her uncle. Joseph Stennett, a retired platelayer, of Crofton, was found dead in an allotment garden, short distance from ...
Published: Saturday 22 June 1935
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 478 | Page: 9 | Tags: none
DOUBLE TRAGEDY
... was discovered the village of Croft'on, about three miles from Wukeheld, to-day. Late the afternoon a young girl named Gladys Stennett, aged was found dead in an allotment garden a short distance from her uncle's house. She was lying on a coat, and a piece ...
Published: Friday 14 June 1935
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 131 | Page: 7 | Tags: none
GIRL WITH
... found dead close to the village of Crofton (near Wakefield) yesterday. | The body of the girl, Gladys , Stennett, aged 17, who lived with her uncle, Joseph Stennett, aretired platelayer, of Crofton, was first found m allotment garden, a short distance from ...
Published: Friday 14 June 1935
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 123 | Page: 5 | Tags: none
GIRL AND MAN FOUND
... afternoon. Later, the police searched the district for a man, and they discovered him hanging from tree. The girl was Gladys Stennett. who had lived at Crofton. The allotment garden where she was found is a short distance from the house. She was lying .
Published: Friday 14 June 1935
Newspaper: Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 166 | Page: 5 | Tags: none
CROFTON TRAGEDY
... young man who strangled the girl he wanted to marry was told at the inquests at Crofton, near Wakefield, yesterday, on Gladys Stennett (17), who was found strangled in a ditch near her uncle's home in Crofton, on Thursday, and Joseph Barton Machin (24) ...
Published: Saturday 15 June 1935
Newspaper: Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 300 | Page: 9 | Tags: none
And many others.
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could joseph had killed himself being he died same year 1935 i have looked at murders list he's name is not there
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Gist of the partial reports above -
Joseph was Gladys's cousin, and lived next door.
He was in love with her, but she wouldn't marry him, so he strangled her with string in an allotment garden on 13 June 1935, and later hanged himself from a tree, probably on the same day.
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ArgyllGran
thanks ever so much for this info! Really useful.
What a tragic story.
Thankyou also maylon.
Cassie :-D
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