Age: 25
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 9 Aug 1906
Crime Location: Olive Street, Middlesbrough
Execution Place: Wakefield
Method: hanging
Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4143808
Thomas Acomb Mouncer was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Elizabeth Baldwin 31 and sentenced to death.
He strangled her at Olive Street, Middlesbrough on 13 May 1906.
After strangling her he surrendered himself to the police and told them that they would find Elizabeth Baldwin dead at their lodgings.
The prosecution said that the strangled her after becoming jealous about another man but he said that he did it in self-defence during a drunken quarrel.
see National Archives - HO 144/829/142825
see Lichfield Mercury - Friday 27 July 1906
see Hull Daily Mail - Friday 10 August 1906
see Homicide 1906
