He was anxious to be remembered, and to be accepted. He seemed under a great strain, but I did not see stark fear in his eyes, only a more childlike worry.
Pierrepoint goes on to relate Corbitt's final moments:Īt twenty seconds to nine the next morning I went into the death cell. He was not only aware of the rope, he had the man who handled it beside him singing a duet. In his memoirs ( Executioner: Pierrepoint), Pierrepoint wrote about his feelings when returning to the pub after Corbitt's execution: "I thought if any man had a deterrent to murder poised before him, it was this troubadour whom I called Tish. He was convicted and sentenced to death by Mr Justice Lynskey. At his trial at Liverpool Assizes, the Crown argued the crime was premeditated and cited diary entries detailing Corbitt's plans to kill Woods. Her body was found the next morning with the word 'whore' written on her forehead. In August 1950, he throttled Woods in a hotel room in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. Corbitt knew about the official sideline of his publican.Īt the time of the murder, Corbitt was separated from his wife and his 11-year-old son, and had a mistress, Eliza Woods.
At the time of the murder, he was a frequent customer in Pierrepoint’s pub "Help The Poor Struggler" (on Manchester Road, in the Hollinwood area of Oldham), sang with him round the piano and called him "Tosh" while Pierrepoint called him "Tish" (Tish and Tosh were, at that time, common nicknames used between people who were passing acquaintances but who did not know each other's names they were also the names of two popular fictional comic characters). Biography Ĭorbitt was born in Oldham and knew his hangman even before he committed the crime.
James Henry " Tish" Corbitt (20 October 1913 – 28 November 1950) was an English murderer hanged at Strangeways Prison in Manchester by Albert Pierrepoint. Not to be confused with James Corbett (disambiguation).
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