Age: 27
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 4 Oct 1899
Crime Location: 11 Boundary Lane, Walworth, London
Execution Place: Wandsworth
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/1837.html
Robert Ward was convicted of the murder of his two children 5-year-old Margaret Florence Ward and 2-year-old Ada Louisa Ward and sentenced to death.
He had been out to work in Peckham on the morning of Thursday 20 July 1899 but came home about midday and took his children inside and cut their throats.
see National Archives - CRIM 1/56/9, HO 144/278/A61342
see Daily Telegraph & Courier (London) - Friday 21 July 1899
see Penny Illustrated Paper - Saturday 29 July 1899
see Illustrated Police Budget - Saturday 29 July 1899, p16
see Homicide 1899
