British Executions

Herbert Brooker

Age: 32

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 28 Jul 1914

Crime Location: Three Bridges, West Sussex

Execution Place: Lewes

Method: hanging

Executioner: John Ellis

Source: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4151366

Herbert Brooker was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Ada Stone 29 and sentenced to death.

He stabbed her and cut her throat on a train near Three Bridges railway station, West Sussex on 25 April 1914.

see Nottingham Evening Post - Thursday 30 April 1914

see National Archives - HO 144-1322-253932

see Dundee People's Journal - Saturday 02 May 1914

see Homicide 1914