British Executions

Ernest Walter Wickham

Age: 30

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 13 Aug 1901

Crime Location: Dalberg Road, Brixton, London

Execution Place: Wandsworth

Method: hanging

Executioner: James Billington

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/

Ernest Walter Wickham was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Amy Eugenie Russell 35.

He cut her throat on 27 June 1901 after she refused to marry him until he got a job.

see National Archives - CRIM 1/67/7, HO 144/571/A62778

see Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.0, 26 June 2014), July 1901, trial of ERNEST WALTER WICKHAM (29) (t19010722-579).

see South London Press - Saturday 29 June 1901

see The Scotsman - Wednesday 14 August 1901

see Homicide 1901