Age: 50
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 29 Jan 1904
Crime Location: 14 Back West Street, Hanley
Execution Place: Stafford
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Billington
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Henry Jones was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Mary Elizabeth Gilbert 48.
He beat her with a coal hammer and cut her throat as they lay in bed together on 29 January 1904 and then cut his own throat although survived. They were later found together in bed although Mary Gilbert had died from her wounds.
see Western Times - Monday 14 March 1904
see Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Monday 14 March 1904
see National Archives - ASSI 6/39/4
see Homicide 1904
