§ Dr. S. J. L. Taylorasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will set out in tabular form the number of murders known by the police to have been committed, the numbers of murderers convicted and the number of murderers executed, in each year between 1924 and 1944.
§ Mr. EdeThe information is as follows:
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Number of Murders. Total. Number of Trial. Sentenced to death. Executed. Year. Murders known to police.(2) Murders of infants under one year (included in Col.(2)) ‡ Cleared up during year Not. Tried. Acquitted. Guilty but Insane Convicted Murders shown in Col. (2). Murders shown in Col.(2) of previous year. No Prosecution Insane on Arraignment. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) 1922 … … 145 45 — — 60 — 3 9 13 35 34 21 1923 … … 150 51 — — 58 1 14 10 12 21 21 11 1924 … … 150 45 — — 42 — 3 11 14 14 14 9 1925 … … 160 35 — — 81 2 8 16 24 31 30 19 1926 … … 154 40 — — 57 — 5 10 18 24 24 16 IO27 … … 143 43 — — 50 — 6 6 13 25 25 16 1928 … … 136 37 — — 60 1 12 12 12 23 23 13 1929 … … 131 28 — — 50 1 7 8 19 15 15 7 1930 … … 122 35 — — 40 — 7 8 11 14 14 5 1931 … … 138 27 — — 57 1 8 13 17 18 18 9 1932 … … 125 31 — — 64 1 9 10 29 15 15 9 1933 … … 141 30 — — 53 1 5 10 18 19 19 10 1934 … … 141 32 — — 61 — 7 11 19 24 24 9 1935 … … 120 19 — — 52 — 6 11 15 20 20 10 1936 … … 145 31 — — 67 — 12 8 20 27 27 9 I937 … … 114 26 98 1 44 — 14 5 11 14 13 7 I938 … … 116 19 100 1 54 — 12 7 12 23 22 8 1939 … … 157 21 143 3 64 — 11 14 11 28 25 9 1940 … … 123 8 111 — 59 — 12 11 14 22 21 11 1941 … … 146 11 133 — 64 — 10 12 18 24 23 15 1942 … … 290 37 185 2 72 2 13 9 17 31 25 18 1913 … … 174 34 151 5 75 — 12 10 24 29 27 15 I944 … … 166 35 147 7 48 — 10 6 11 21 21 13 *Figures for crimes cleared up during the year are not available before 1937. †1944 figures are provisional only. ‡For the purpose of this column murders "cleared up" refers to cases where a person has been charged with the offence or when the suspect has died, or where more than one murder has been committed by the same person.