Age: 23
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 16 Aug 1900
Crime Location: 79 Piccadilly, Swinton, Rotherham
Execution Place: Leeds
Method: hanging
Executioner: James Billington
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Charles Benjamin Backhouse and his brother Frederick Lawder Backhouse were convicted of the murder of John William Kew and sentenced to death.
Charles Backhouse was executed but Frederick Backhouse was reprieved because he was only 17.
