British Executions

Hiram Thompson

Age: 52

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 30 May 1922

Crime Location: 11 Brandforth Street, Bamber Bridge, Preston

Execution Place: Manchester

Method: hanging

Executioner: John Ellis

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

Hiram Thompson was convicted of the murder of his 49-year-old wife Ellen Thompson and sentenced to death.

He cut her throat and battered her to death at 11 Brandforth Street, Bamber Bridge, near Preston on 25 April 1922.

see National Archives - ASSI 52/336, HO 144/1766/432936

see Homicide 1922