18 January – Dr
William Price attempts to cremate his dead baby son, Iesu Grist, at
Llantrisant. Later tried at Cardiff Assizes and acquitted on the grounds that
cremation is not contrary to law, he is thus able to carry out the ceremony (the first in the U.K. in modern times) on 14 March.[2]
3 March – sisters Catherine Flannagan and Margaret Higgins, the "
Black Widows of Liverpool", are
hanged for poisoning Higgins' husband for an insurance payout; they are suspected of at least four other similar murders.[5]
6 December –
Representation of the People Act ("Third Reform Act") extends the franchise uniformly across the U.K. in county as well as borough constituencies to all male tenants paying a £10 rental or occupying land to that value.[6] This extends the franchise from around 3,040,000 voters to around 5,700,000.[14]
9 December – Dudley and Stephens receive the mandatory
death penalty with a recommendation for
clemency and on 13 December are told that their penalties have been commuted to six months'
imprisonment.
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abPorter, Bernard (1991). The Origins of the Vigilant State: the London Metropolitan Police Special Branch before the First World War (Repr. ed.). Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer.
ISBN085115283X.
18 January – Dr
William Price attempts to cremate his dead baby son, Iesu Grist, at
Llantrisant. Later tried at Cardiff Assizes and acquitted on the grounds that
cremation is not contrary to law, he is thus able to carry out the ceremony (the first in the U.K. in modern times) on 14 March.[2]
3 March – sisters Catherine Flannagan and Margaret Higgins, the "
Black Widows of Liverpool", are
hanged for poisoning Higgins' husband for an insurance payout; they are suspected of at least four other similar murders.[5]
6 December –
Representation of the People Act ("Third Reform Act") extends the franchise uniformly across the U.K. in county as well as borough constituencies to all male tenants paying a £10 rental or occupying land to that value.[6] This extends the franchise from around 3,040,000 voters to around 5,700,000.[14]
9 December – Dudley and Stephens receive the mandatory
death penalty with a recommendation for
clemency and on 13 December are told that their penalties have been commuted to six months'
imprisonment.
^
abPorter, Bernard (1991). The Origins of the Vigilant State: the London Metropolitan Police Special Branch before the First World War (Repr. ed.). Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer.
ISBN085115283X.