Age: 26
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 12 May 1903
Crime Location: Fulwood Barracks, Preston
Execution Place: Manchester
Method: hanging
Executioner: William Billington
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
William George Hudson was convicted of the murder of Harry Short and sentenced to death.
He shot Harry Short in the head while he was asleep in bed at Fulwood Barracks near Preston on Tuesday 17 February 1903.
see National Archives - ASSI 52/80, HO 144/706/107446
see Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Saturday 25 April 1903
see Western Daily Press - Monday 11 May 1903
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 12 May 1903
see Lincolnshire Echo - Saturday 07 March 1903
see Derby Daily Telegraph - Friday 27 February 1903
see Homicide 1903
