Practically every day of the year is a landmark of some sort in the annals of crime. Here’s where you can find out what happened this week in years gone by...
Stories from the week beginning July 2nd.
Ice-Cream Man With A Hatchet
Joseph Calebrere’s young wife had “given way to drink,” and this, it was said, preyed on his mind. In what was later described as “a fit of ungovernable fury” in April, 1904, Calebrere, an ice-cream merchant, killed his wife and three children with a hatchet at their home in Kilbirnie, North Ayrshire.
At Glasgow Circuit Court on JULY 5th he was sentenced to death, but this was commuted to life. In August, 1914, he was released by a government with weightier matters on its mind.
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