Age: 29
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 21 Jul 1903
Crime Location: Sileby
Execution Place: Leicester
Method: hanging
Executioner: William Billington
Source: http://www.sileby-village.co.uk/History-Murder-story.htm
Thomas Porter and Thomas Preston were convicted of the murder of William Adiel Wilkinson and sentenced to death.
William Wilkinson was a police constable.
see National Archives - ASSI 13/33, HO 144/713/109423
see Sileby Village
see Manchester Evening News - Thursday 16 July 1903
see Western Times - Friday 03 July 1903
see Dundee Evening Post - Tuesday 26 May 1903
see Greenock Telegraph and Clyde Shipping Gazette - Tuesday 21 July 1903
see Homicide 1903