Age: 43
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 18 May 1904
Crime Location: SS Waiwera, South Atlantic
Execution Place: Pentonville
Method: hanging
Executioner: William Billington
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
John Sullivan was convicted of the murder of Dennis Lowthian 17 and sentenced to death.
He battered him to death on board the SS Waiwera on the high seas on 18 May 1904 whilst the ship was between Montevideo and Teneriffe.
see National Archives - HO 144/759/118939, CRIM 1/90/9
see Essex Newsman - Saturday 11 June 1904
see Western Times - Friday 03 June 1904
see London Daily News - Friday 10 June 1904
see Lancashire Evening Post - Thursday 23 June 1904
see Homicide 1904
