Age: 61
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 15 Dec 1903
Crime Location: Pokehouse Wood Quarry, Lucton, 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 59 and sentenced to death.
He assaulted her in Poke House Quarry where he was working at some time on Saturday 11 July 1903 although it was not thought that she died until much later that night. After assaulting her he washed her face and later put her on a wheelbarrow and attempted to take her home but was met by some people who became worried for Jane Haywood and sent for help.
see National Archives - ASSI 6/38/2, HO 144/728/112654
see Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 15 December 1903
see Worcestershire Chronicle - Saturday 08 August 1903
see Hereford Journal - Saturday 05 December 1903
see Ludlow Advertiser - Saturday 18 July 1903
see Leominster News and North West Herefordshire & Radnorshire Advertiser - Friday 17 July 1903 (picture of William Haywood on his way to Hereford)
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 15 December 1903
see Star of Gwent - Friday 24 July 1903
see Flintshire Observer - Thursday 03 December 1903
see Homicide 1903
