Age: 28
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 10 Aug 1861
Execution Place: Cambridge
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/1837.html
Augustus Hilton murdered his 22 year old wife Charlotte Hilton at their home in Parson Drove after a trip to the corn market at Wisbeach. They had been married for 2 years and were well to do farmers.
When they got home from the corn market Augustus Hilton accused his wife of withholding money from him that he needed for trade. After he asked her to do something and she replied 'No, you have been slandering me all the time I was at Wisbeach, and i have not come home to wait on you - I'd rather die first', and Augustus Hilton replied 'So you shall' and he chased her up the stairs and and nearly severed her head from her body.
