Age: 57
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 4 Dec 1900
Crime Location: Limefield, Bury, Lancashire
Execution Place: Manchester
Method: hanging
Executioner: James Billington
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Joseph Holden was convicted of the murder of his grandson John Dawes 8 and sentenced to death.
He drowned him in a quarry at Limefield, Bury, Lancashire on Wednesday 5 September 1900.
see National Archives - ASSI 52/54, HO 144/282/A62226
see Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 16 November 1900
see Sheffield Evening Telegraph - Thursday 06 September 1900
see Buckingham Advertiser and Free Press - Saturday 08 September 1900
see Murder UK
see Executed Today
see Homicide 1900
