Age: 35
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 22 Jul 1902
Crime Location: 16 Clarence Buildings, North Street, Alverstone, Gosport, Hampshire
Execution Place: Winchester
Method: hanging
Executioner: William Billington
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk
William Churcher was convicted of the murder of his partner Sophia Jane Hepworth 30 and sentenced to death.
He stabbed her to death on 10 April 1902 at their home at 16 Clarence Buildings, North Street, Gosport.
see National Archives - HO 144/580/A63488
see Cambridge Daily News - Wednesday 23 April 1902
see Edinburgh Evening News - Thursday 17 April 1902
see Sheffield Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 22 July 1902
see Homicide 1902
