British Executions

Charles Wood Whittaker

Age: 43

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 2 Dec 1903

Crime Location: 99 Husband Street, Collyhurst, Manchester

Execution Place: Manchester

Method: hanging

Executioner: John Billington

Source: http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

Charles Whittaker was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Elizabeth Range 43 and sentenced to death.

He stabbed her at 99 Husband Street, Collyhurst in Manchester on Saturday 8 August, 1903.

see National Archives - ASSI 52/92, HO 144/731/113145

see Western Daily Press - Tuesday 11 August 1903

see Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 04 December 1903

see Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Friday 21 August 1903

see Derby Daily Telegraph - Friday 14 August 1903

see Dundee Evening Post - Wednesday 02 December 1903

see Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Monday 10 August 1903

see Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Friday 14 August 1903

see Homicide 1903