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
