Age: 41
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 7 Jan 1919
Crime Location: 1 Atkinson Hill, Hunslet, Leeds
Execution Place: Leeds
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Benjamin Hindle Benson was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend 30-year-old Annie Mayne and sentenced to death.
He cut her throat in Hunslet on 27 August 1918.
see National Archives - HO 144/1506/372702
see Homicide 1919
