John Dickman

John Dickman

John Dickman (died 10 August 1910) was an Englishman hanged for murder.

He was convicted of the murder of John Nisbet, which took place on a train travelling between Newcastle-on-Tyne and Alnmouth. Nisbet was carrying a bag containing the wages for a colliery. He was shot and his bag stolen.

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 remembered today. However it did figure in the 1976 BBC television series "Second Verdict", and a 2008 television programme "Nightwatch". The latter programme suggested that two witnesses who said they saw Dickman and Nisbet entering the same compartment may even have been the real killers.

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.

References

Diane Janes "Edwardian Murder: Ightham and the Morpeth Train Robbery" (2007) ISBN 978-0-7509-4780-0

External links

* [http://www.btp.police.uk/History%20Society/Publications/History%20Society/Crime%20on%20line/Printable/The%20murder%20of%20John%20NISBET%20by%20John%20DICKMAN,%201910%20%20Printable.htm article on the case]


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