Age: 61
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 15 Dec 1903
Crime Location: Pokehouse Wood Quarry, Leominster
Execution Place: Hereford
Method: hanging
Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
William Haywood was convicted of the murder of his wife Jane Haywood and sentenced to death.
He told a person on the afternoon of 11July 1903 'I threw a stone at my ---- old woman and hit her just above the ear, and it's bleeding, and I can't stop it. If the poor old ---- is dead when I get back I will bury her in the brook'.
He was later seen taking the body of Jane Haywood from the quarry where they had worked to their home in Yarpole in a wheelbarrow.
see Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 15 December 1903
see Worcestershire Chronicle - Saturday 08 August 1903
see National Archives - ASSI 6/38/2, HO 144/728/112654