Age: 20
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 10 Dec 1912
Crime Location: Abbey Lane, Stratford, West Ham
Execution Place: Chelmsford
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C4200035
William Charles Adolphus Beal was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Clara Elizabeth Carter 17 and sentenced to death.
He cut her throat in Abbey Lane, Stratford, West Ham on 12 September 1912. However, he said that she had attacked him with the razor and had then cut her own throat.
see National Archives - CRIM 1/134/5, HO 144/1237/230398
see Homicide 1912
