Age: 50
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 28 Dec 1905
Crime Location: The Kells, Riddings Road, Ilkley
Execution Place: Leeds
Method: hanging
Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
George Smith was convicted of the murder of his wife Martha Smith and sentenced to death.
He stabbed her and cut her throat at The Kells, Riddings Road, Ilkley on 12 September 1905.
see National Archives - HO 144/806/135024
see Leeds Mercury - Friday 15 September 1905
see Wharfedale & Airedale Observer - Friday 22 September 1905
see Homicide 1905
