Age: 24
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 17 Nov 1903
Crime Location: Ship Hotel, Swindon
Execution Place: Devizes
Method: hanging
Executioner: William Billington
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Edward Richard Palmer was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Esther Swinford and sentenced to death.
He shot her at the Ship Hotel in Swindon where she worked on Friday 18 September 1903.
see National Archives - HO 144/728/112650
see Penny Illustrated Paper - Saturday 26 September 1903
see Homicide 1903
