Age: 24
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 16 Dec 1902
Crime Location: Bill Quay, Felling-on-Tyne
Execution Place: Durham
Method: hanging
Executioner: William Billington
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Thomas Nicholson was convicted of the murder of Mary Ina Stewart 7 and sentenced to death.
Mary Stewart had been to see her uncle on 16 August 1902 in a neighbouring village but left at 7.30pm to go home at Bill Quay near Felling-on-Tyne. However, on her way back Thomas Nicholson, who had earlier been to the pub met her and took her to a brickyard at a disused quarry where he raped and strangled her and cut her throat.
see National Archives - HO 144/683/102625
see Cheltenham Chronicle - Saturday 23 August 1902
see Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Friday 22 August 1902
see Sheffield Evening Telegraph - Wednesday 10 September 1902
see Shields Daily Gazette - Wednesday 10 September 1902
see Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Tuesday 16 December 1902
see Homicide 1902
