British Executions

John Williams

Age: 38

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 19 Mar 1912

Crime Location: Prices Lane, Birkenhead

Execution Place: Knutsford

Method: hanging

Executioner: John Ellis

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/

John Williams was convicted of the murder of his wife Hilda Mary Josephine Williams 39 and sentenced to death.

He cut her throat in Price's Lane, Birkenhead on 19 December 1911.

see National Archives - HO 144/1046/185425

see Homicide 1912