British Executions

Herbert Edward Rawson Salisbury

Age: 35

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 11 May 1920

Crime Location: River Alt, Formby

Execution Place: Liverpool

Method: hanging

Executioner: John Ellis

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

Herbert Edward Rawson Salisbury was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend 38-year-old Alice Pearson and sentenced to death.

He shot her on the embankment of the River Alt at Formby on 21 March 1920.

see National Archives - ASSI 52/314, HO 144/1627/403177

see Edinburgh Evening News - Friday 23 April 1920

see Homicide 1920