British Executions

Ambrose Quinn

Age: 28

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 26 Nov 1919

Crime Location: Hawes Street, Scotswood Road, Newcastle

Execution Place: Newcastle

Method: hanging

Executioner: John Ellis

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/

Ambrose Quinn was convicted of the murder of his wife Elizabeth Ann Quinn 25 and sentenced to death.

He cut her throat in Hawes Street, Scotswood Road, Newcastle on 9 August, 1919.

see National Archives - HO 144/1536/392581

see National Library of Scotland

see Globe - Wednesday 26 November 1919

 

see Homicide 1919