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Railway Murders (2021)

S1E4 The Newcastle Train Murder

May 02, 2021 Season 1 Episode 4 Documentary, Crime

On March 18, 1910, John Innes Nisbet, a clerk from Heaton who transported miners' wages for Stobswood Colliery, was murdered. The crime led to the execution of John Alexander Dickman, marking him as the final person to be hanged in a jail in Newcastle.