Age: 30
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 29 Dec 1903
Crime Location: George Square, Wombwell, Yorkshire
Execution Place: Leeds
Method: hanging
Executioner: William Billington
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
John Gallagher and Emily Swann were convicted of the murder of Emily Swann's husband William Swann and sentenced to death.
William Swann, a glassblower, and Emily Swann had lived in Wombwell and at some point John Gallagher, a miner, moved in with them as a lodger and had an affair with Emily Swann. However, he was turned out on account of his intimacy and went off to lodge with a woman a few doors away where Emily Swann frequently visited him.
see National Archives - HO 144/736/113887
see Homicide 1903
