Age: 66
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 21 Dec 1898
Crime Location: Bugsworth, Whaley Bridge
Execution Place: Derby
Method: hanging
Executioner: James and Thomas Billington
Source: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000644/18981130/003/0003
John Cotton was convicted of the murder of his 36-year-old wife Hannah Cotton and sentenced to death.
He had been a boatman and had occupied a cabin in a canal boat with his wife at Bugsworth near Whaley Bridge.
see National Archives - ASSI 13/28, HO 144/275/A60617
see National Library of Scotland
see Nottinghamshire Guardian - Saturday 24 December 1898
see Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 28 December 1898
