Age:
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 13 Aug 1872
Execution Place: Maidstone
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20070624062456/http://www.fred.net/jefalvey/execute.h
On 31 May, Daniel Donahoe reported Bradford to his superiors for causing a disturbance, and as a result Bradford was reprimanded. Later that night as Donahoe slept in the barrack room, Bradford crept in and butchered his colleague with a bayonet. He was detained at once and claimed he was glad Donahoe was dead as he wouldn't be able to cause grief for anybody else. He was hanged by William Calcraft and Smith. Bradford died hard and struggled for over ten minutes at the end of the rope. The sentence was carried out on the 13th August 1872 in Maidstone. Bradford was just nineteen when he died.
