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