article_snippet: Corsican Jerome Guerrini was jailed for 15 years in 1904 for murdering labourer Patrick Gilligan.
article_snippet: But by the far the most terrifying Edwardian criminal featured is Corsican Jerome Guerrini, who was jailed for 15 years in 1904 for killing labourer Patrick Gilligan.
article_snippet: a particularly good account appeared in the Morpeth Herald for 26 November 1904 and a particularly good account revealed that the prisoner Jerome Guerrini (who also went under the alias of Joseph Brunetti) was a 27-year old Corsican who had spent the previous four years at sea as a fireman.'
article_snippet: the Morpeth Herald reported that the man was accused of murdering labourer Patrick Gilligan who lived on Clive Street, North Shields (with two brothers named Davis), almost directly opposite the lodgings occupied by the accused.
article_snippet: The jury found Guerrini guilty of manslaughter and Guerrini was sentenced to fifteen years penal servitude.