Age: 26
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 25 Jul 1899
Crime Location: Weston Marsh, Spalding
Execution Place: Lincoln
Method: hanging
Executioner: William Billington
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/1837.html
Edward Bell was convicted of the murder of his 30-year-old wife Mary Eliza Bell and sentenced to death.
He administered poison as medicine to her between 22 and 26 April 1899, the poisoning being mercury and strychnine.
see National Archives - ASSI 13/29, HO 144/277/A61159
see Lakes Chronicle and Reporter - Wednesday 31 May 1899
see Norfolk News - Saturday 27 May 1899
see Nottinghamshire Guardian - Saturday 03 June 1899
see Sheffield Evening Telegraph - Wednesday 31 May 1899
see Liverpool Weekly Courier - Saturday 03 June 1899
see Peterborough Advertiser - Wednesday 26 July 1899
see Thetford & Watton Times - Saturday 08 July 1899
see Lakes Chronicle and Reporter - Wednesday 17 May 1899
see Spalding Guardian - Saturday 17 June 1899
see Weekly Dispatch (London) - Sunday 28 May 1899
see Homicide 1899
