Age: 53
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 31 May 1922
Crime Location: Hay-on-Wye
Execution Place: Gloucester
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Herbert Rowse Armstrong was convicted of the murder of his wife 48-year-old Katharine Mary Armstrong and sentenced to death.
He poisoned her with arsenic at Hay-on-Wye on 22 February 1921 after having previously drawn up a new will for her in July 1920, leaving everything to him and no provision for their children. After killing her he went on holiday to Italy.
see National Archives - HO 144/1754/425994, HO 144/1755/425994, HO 144/1756/425994, HO 144/1757/425994, ASSI 6/56, PCOM 8/3
see Illustrated Police News - Thursday 12 January 1922
see Illustrated Police News - Thursday 08 June 1922
see BBC
see Wikipedia
see Murderpedia
see Homicide 1922
