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Bow cinema murder
The Bow cinema murder occurred on 7 August 1934 in Bow Road, East London, where 19-year-old John Frederick Stockwell, an attendant at the Eastern Palace Cinema on that road, attacked his manager Dudley Henry Hoard with an axe. Stockwell was arrested by the police in Great Yarmouth four days later. He admitted at his subsequent trial that he had stolen £90 of the cinema's takings and attacked Hoard when the latter tried to stop him removing a suitcase in which it was hidden. Stockwell was
John Stockwell
John Stockwel may refer to:
- John Frederick Stockwell (1915−1934), British murderer convicted of the Bow cinema murder in 1934
- John Stockwell (CIA officer) (born 1937), American CIA officer and activist
- John Stockwell (actor) (born 1961), American actor