Age: 24
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 26 Nov 1940
Crime Location: Hut on Seven Acre Field, Thorney
Execution Place: Bedford
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
William Henry Cooper murdered John Joseph Harrison 68 by battering him to death in a hut on Seven Acre Field, Thorney on 5 July 1940.
see National Archives - DPP 2/767