British Executions

Andrew Anderson Bagley

Age: 62

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 10 Feb 1937

Crime Location: Hartington Road, Rotherham

Execution Place: Leeds

Method: hanging

Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint

Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

Andrew Bagley, also known as John Smith murdered Irene Hart 16 by strangling her at Hartington Road, Rotherham on 12 September 1936.

Andrew Bagley and Irene Hart lived in a crowded house and actually shared the same mattress in a room. Irene Hart was the daughter of a man that had married Andrew Bagley's daughter with Irene Hart being the daughter from a previous marriage.

see The Encyclopedia of Executions - John Eddleston

see National Archives - MEPO 3/797