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Samuel ATHERLEY

 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

   
 
 
Classification: Mass murderer
Characteristics: Parricide
Number of victims: 4
Date of murders: July 10, 1909
Date of arrest: Same day (suicide attempt)
Date of birth: 1889
Victims profile: His girlfriend Mrs Matilda Lambert and her three children John, Annie, and Samuel
Method of murder: Cutting their throats with a razor
Location: Arnold, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Status: Executed by hanging in Nottingham on December 14, 1909
 
 
 
 
 
 

Samuel Atherley was a former soldier who murdered his girlfriend, Mrs Matilda Lambert and her three children John, Annie, and Samuel, by cutting their throats at their home at Arnold, Nottingham, on 10 July.

He had lived with the woman for seven years and killed her after she told him to leave. He struck her over the head with a hammer before he took out the razor.

After he had cut their throats, he turned the razor on himself but survived after being treated in hospital.

He was hanged by Henry Pierrepoint and Thomas Pierrepoint in Nottingham on the 14 December 1909.  He was thirty years old at the time of his execution.

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