British Executions

Samuel Rowledge

Age: 37

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 13 Jul 1904

Crime Location: Chaucer Street, Northampton

Execution Place: Northampton

Method: hanging

Executioner: William Billington

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

Samuel Rowledge was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Alice Foster 32 and sentenced to death.

He shot her at his mother's house at 29 Chaucer Street in Northampton on 15 March 1904.

see National Archives - ASSI 13/34, HO 144/762/119660

see Gloucester Citizen - Wednesday 22 June 1904

see Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Thursday 23 June 1904

see Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Saturday 25 June 1904

see Homicide 1904