Age: 66
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 23 Mar 1920
Crime Location: 34 Moorgate Street, Sunderland
Execution Place: Durham
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
William Hall was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend 51-year-old Mary Ann Dixon and sentenced to death.
He cut her throat at 34 Moorgate Street, Sunderland on 6 November 1919.
see National Archives - HO 144/1623/399556
see Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Friday 05 March 1920
see National Library of Scotland
see Homicide 1920