British Executions

Francis Wilson Booker

Age: 28

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 8 Apr 1924

Crime Location: Carrs Wood, Northenden, Cheshire

Execution Place: Manchester

Method: hanging

Executioner: William Willis

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

Francis Wilson Booker was convicted of the murder of 14-year-old Percy Sharpe.

He killed him at Carr's Wood, Northenden on 4 September 1923.

see National Archives - MEPO 3/1593, ASSI 52/350, HO 144/3839

see National Library of Scotland

see "News in Brief." Times [London, England] 19 Jan. 1924: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 9 Dec. 2013.

see "Carr's Wood Crime." Times [London, England] 30 Jan. 1924: 15. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 9 Dec. 2013.

see "Court Of Criminal Appeal." Times [London, England] 25 Mar. 1924: 5. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 9 Dec. 2013.

see "News in Brief." Times [London, England] 9 Apr. 1924: 16. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 9 Dec. 2013.

see Western Morning News - Thursday 27 September 1923

see Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Saturday 19 January 1924

see Gloucestershire Echo - Friday 25 January 1924

see Portsmouth Evening News - Saturday 08 September 1923

see Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser - Saturday 22 September 1923

see Western Daily Press - Friday 28 September 1923

see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 15 January 1924