Age: 55
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 18 Mar 1902
Crime Location: Lion Hotel, Westbury, Shropshire
Execution Place: Shrewsbury
Method: hanging
Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Richard Wigley was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Eliza Mary Bowen 28 and sentenced to death.
He cut her throat at The Lion Inn, Westbury, Shropshire on Saturday, 30 November 1901.
see National Archives - ASSI 6/37/3, HO 144/576/A63141
see Shropshire Star
see Northern times and weekly journal for Sutherland and the North - Thursday 06 March 1902
see Homicide 1902
