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Victim(s): |
William Metcalfe |
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Date of Birth: |
1857 |
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Clock Cleaner |
D'Arcy was a clock
cleaner who was convicted at York Assizes on 7th May, for
the murder of William Metcalfe an old man of eighty five,
a gamekeeper from Oulton, near Leeds. On 4th March two
women heard a cry of murder coming from a cottage on an
estate, and saw a man robbing the elderly gamekeeper. Also
in the vicinity were a father and son named Mosely, the
younger of whom grabbed the cottage door handle to prevent
the man escaping while his father rushed for assistance.
Before the police could arrive, the robber pulled out his
gun and threatened that he would kill them if the door was
not released. Mosely sensibly complied and the man fled,
leaving Metcalfe dead on the floor. He had been battered
to death. Metcalfe's niece told police she had seen John
D'Arcy at the cottage earlier and he was arrested in his
lodgings at Hunslet, Leeds. Upon identification by
witnesses, he was charged. He was sentenced to death and
hanged by William Marwood on the 27th May 1879 in York.
