Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 17 Feb 1880
Execution Place: Manchester
Method: hanging
Executioner: William Marwood
Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20070624062456/http://www.fred.net/jefalvey/execute.h
William Cassidy and his wife had been married for many unhappy years and after a series of rows, he decided to be rid of her. He joked with a friend in a pub that he intended to kill his wife and that he would swing for her. One night in November 1879, he crept into her room as she slept and after soaking the bed in paraffin he set it alight. She awoke engulfed in flames and died in great agony from her burns. Cassidy was hanged by William Marwood on the 17th February 1880 in Manchester.
