British Executions

Sidney George Smith

Age: 23

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 9 Mar 1904

Crime Location: 1 Bubbs Cottages, York Street, Cheltenham

Execution Place: Gloucester

Method: hanging

Executioner: William Billington

Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

Sidney George Smith was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Alice Woodman 21 and sentenced to death.

He cut her throat at 1 Bubb's Cottages, York Street, Cheltenham on the night of 14 December 1903.

see National Archives - ASSI 6/39/1, HO 144/741/115024

see Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 19 February 1904

see Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 11 March 1904

see Homicide 1904