Age: 27
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 16 Dec 1903
Crime Location: Long Valley, Aldershot
Execution Place: Winchester
Method: hanging
Executioner: William Billington
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
William Brown and Thomas Cowdrey were convicted of the murder of Esther Atkins 35 and sentenced to death.
It was said that they murdered her with the intention of stealing her money on the night of 6 October 1903 near the statue of the Duke of Wellington at Aldershot after a night of drinking.
see National Archives - HO 144/734/113523
see Dundee Courier - Friday 27 November 1903
see Worcestershire Chronicle - Saturday 31 October 1903
see Hull Daily Mail - Tuesday 24 November 1903
see Aberdeen People's Journal - Saturday 19 December 1903
see Cheltenham Chronicle - Saturday 05 December 1903
see Leeds Mercury - Thursday 26 November 1903
see St James's Gazette - Wednesday 16 December 1903
see Homicide 1903
