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