British Executions

Samuel Henry Smith

Age: 45

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 10 Mar 1903

Crime Location: 4 Fourth Terrace, Hope Street, Grimsby

Execution Place: Lincoln

Method: hanging

Executioner: William Billington

Source: http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

Samuel Henry Smith was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Lucy Margaret Lingard 33 and sentenced to death.

He stabbed her to death at her home at 4 Fourth Terrace, Hope Street in Grimsby on Tuesday 18 November 1902.

see National Archives - HO 144/697/105311, ASSI 13/33

see Nottingham Evening Post - Thursday 04 December 1902

see Lancashire Evening Post - Thursday 20 November 1902

see Western Times - Saturday 21 February 1903

see Lincolnshire Echo - Wednesday 25 February 1903

see Leeds Mercury - Saturday 14 March 1903

see Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Saturday 21 February 1903

see Homicide 1903