Age: 22
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 8 Jan 1919
Crime Location: MillHill Road, Town End, Pontefract
Execution Place: Leeds
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
George Walter Cardwell and Percy George Barrett were convicted of the murder of 62-year-old Rhoda Walker who they killed during a robbery and sentenced to death.
They battered her to death at her shop in Millhill Road, Town End, Pontefract on 16 August 1918.
see National Archives - HO 144/1506/372732
see The Scotsman - Tuesday 20 August 1918
see Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Monday 19 August 1918
see Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Wednesday 21 August 1918
see Homicide 1919
