British Executions

Robert Lawman

Age: 35

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 24 Mar 1908

Crime Location: 1 Hyde Park Street, Gateshead

Execution Place: Durham

Method: hanging

Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint

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

Robert Lawman was convicted of the murder of his 24-year-old girlfriend Amelia Bell Wood and sentenced to death.

He cut her throat at her lodgings at 1 Hyde Park Street, Gateshead on 1 February 1908.

see National Archives - HO 144/874/162921

see Homicide 1908