British Executions

Thomas Porter

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