Age: 61
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 14 Aug 1900
Crime Location: 18 Great Titchfield Street, London
Execution Place: Newgate
Method: hanging
Executioner: James Billington
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
William James Irwin was convicted of the murder of his wife Catherine Amelia Irwin 32 and sentenced to death.
He stabbed her on Friday 22 June 1900 in Great Titchfield Street, London. The weapon was a small table knife that had been filed or ground so as to make it pointed.
see Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 18 October 2015), July 1900, trial of WILLIAM JAMES IRWIN (61) (t19000723-489).
see Murder UK
see National Archives - HO 144/281/A62016
see Homicide 1900
