British Executions

George Loake

Age: 64

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 8 Dec 1911

Crime Location: 8a The Butts, Off Warwick Street, Walsall

Execution Place: Stafford

Method: hanging

Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint

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

George Loake was convicted of the murder of his wife Elizabeth Loake 46 and sentenced to death.

He stabbed her to death at 8a The Butts, Off Warwick Street, Walsall on 6 August 1911.

see National Archives - ASSI 6/46/9, HO 144/1176/216591

see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Thursday 28 December 1911

see Homicide 1911