Edward Hartigan

Edward Hartigan was convicted of the murder of his wife Catherine Hartigan 45 and sentenced to death.

He battered her to death in Stockport on 7 August 1906.

They were both addicted to drink and frequently quarrelled. On the evening of 7 August 1906 Edward Hartigan went home drunk and later Catherine Hartigan was found battered about the head and lying in a pool of blood with a bloodstained coal hammer by her side.

Edward Hartigan later surrendered himself to the police telling them that he had dashed his wife’s brains out.