British Executions

Henry Williams

Age: 31

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 11 Nov 1902

Crime Location: 5 Waterford Road, Fulham, London

Execution Place: Pentonville

Method: hanging

Executioner: William Billington

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

Henry Williams was convicted of the murder of his 5-year-old daughter Margaret Anne Andrews and sentenced to death.

He cut her throat at his home at 5 Waterford Road, Fulham, London on 10 September 1902.

Henry Williams had been seeing a woman for nine years and they had had a child together, Margaret Andrews.

However, in 1900 Henry Williams went off to fight in the Boer War. When he returned in 1902 he became convinced that his partner had been seeing a sailor. He argued with her about it but she denied it. He told her that he would not hurt her but that he would break her heart.

see National Archives - CRIM 1/75/11

see Western Times - Tuesday 28 October 1902

see Aberdeen Press and Journal - Friday 12 September 1902

see Banffshire Reporter - Wednesday 12 November 1902

see National Library of Scotland

see Homicide 1902