British Executions

William James Robinson

Age: 26

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 17 Apr 1917

Crime Location: Sussex Arms Public House, Upper St Martins Lane, London

Execution Place: Pentonville

Method: hanging

Executioner: John Ellis

Source: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000377/19170307/073/0004

William James Robinson and John Henry Gray were convicted of killing Alfred Williams 35, a Private in the Canadian Army.

William Robinson was convicted of murder and sentenced to death.

see National Archives - ASSI 13/47, CRIM 1/165/2

see A Second Companion To Murder by E Spencer Shew 1962

see Manchester Evening News - Monday 02 April 1917

see Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Wednesday 07 March 1917

see Manchester Evening News - Tuesday 17 April 1917

see Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 07 March 1917

see Homicide 1917