Age: 30
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 2 Jun 1903
Crime Location: British Barque Veronica, Atlantic Ocean off Brazil
Execution Place: Walton Gaol, Liverpool
Method: hanging
Executioner: William Billington
Source: http://eotd.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/2-june-1903-gustav-rau-and-willem-schmidt/
Gustav Rau, Willem Schmidt and Otto Ernest Theodor Monsson were convicted of the murder of Alexander Shaw and several other seamen.
Gustav Rau and Willem Schmidt were executed.
see National Archives - ASSI 52/83, HO 144/982/108104
see The Trial of Gustav Rau, Otto Monsson and Willem Smith The 'Veronica' Trial G. W. Keeton & John Cameron Published by William Hodge and Company , Ltd., London, 1952
see Shields Daily Gazette - Friday 03 April 1903
see Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Wednesday 03 June 1903
see Derby Daily Telegraph - Friday 27 March 1903
see Cavan Weekly News and General Advertiser - Saturday 06 June 1903
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 12 May 1903
see Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Wednesday 01 April 1903
see Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Saturday 11 April 1903
see Homicide 1903
