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Elizabeth Berry has the odd distinctions of being the first woman to be hanged at Walton Prison in Liverpool which had facilities for female inmates and, as far as I know, the only woman to be hanged by a man with the same surname as herself. She was executed by James Berry in 1887 and even more strangely they had actually met and even danced together. This had occurred in August 1885 at a police ball in Manchester.
James presumably had attended this ball on his own because it is doubtful that his wife, Sarah, whom he had married in 1874, would have approved of him dancing with an attractive woman two years his junior. They clearly made some impression on each other though, because both of them remembered the other when they next met nearly eighteen months later.
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