Age: 30
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 3 Aug 1909
Crime Location: Footpath near Pink Bank Lane, Gorton, Manchester
Execution Place: Manchester
Method: hanging
Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.co.uk
Mark Shawcross murdered his girlfriend Emily Ramsbottom 27 who he strangled on a footpath near Pink Bank Lane, Gorton, Manchester on 12 May 1909.
Emily Ramsbottom was married but was seperated from her husband and had been living with Mark Shawcross for 4 years. They had argued a number of times but in May 1909 they argued and she left him.
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 03 August 1909
see National Archives - ASSI 52/152, HO 144/919/181098
see The Encyclopedia Of Executions - John Eddleston
see Homicide 1909
