Age: 20
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 15 Nov 1899
Crime Location: Dalston Lane, Dalston, London
Execution Place: Newgate
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/1837.html
Thomas Skeffington was convicted of the murder of 27-year-old Florence Wells and sentenced to death.
He stabbed her with a penknife in Dalston Lane near Dalston Junction Station on the night of Monday 2 October 1899.
see National Archives - CRIM 1/58/1, HO 144/279/A61419
see Penny Illustrated Paper - Saturday 14 October 1899
see Illustrated Police Budget - Saturday 14 October 1899, p13
see Western Times - Thursday 16 November 1899
see South Wales Daily News - Monday 30 October 1899
see Reynolds's Newspaper - Sunday 08 October 1899
see National Library of Scotland
see Homicide 1899
