Age: 31
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 30 Oct 1923
Crime Location: 40 Jamaica Street, Edinburgh
Execution Place: Edinburgh, Calton
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Philip Murray was convicted of the murder of 30-year-old William Ronald Cree and sentenced to death.
He assaulted him and threw him out of a second storey window at 40 Jamaica Street, Edinburgh on 23 June 1923. Before throwing him out the window, he was said to have hit him with a flat iron.
see Dundee Courier - Wednesday 10 October 1923
see The Scotsman - Tuesday 30 October 1923
see The Scotsman - Wednesday 10 October 1923
see Homicide 1923
