British Executions

Robert Gadsby

Age: 65

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 18 Apr 1917

Crime Location: 3 Thrift Crescent, Waterloo Lane, Bramley

Execution Place: Leeds

Method: hanging

Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint

Source: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4151444

Robert Gadsby was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Julia Ann Johnson 54 and sentenced to death.

He cut her throat at 3 Thrift Crescent, Waterloo Lane, Bramley on 28 February 1917.

see National Archives - HO 144/1476/332553

see Homicide 1917