Age: 23
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 9 Mar 1904
Crime Location: 1 Bubbs Cottages, York Street, Cheltenham
Execution Place: Gloucester
Method: hanging
Executioner: William Billington
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Sidney George Smith was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Alice Woodman 21 and sentenced to death.
He cut her throat at 1 Bubb's Cottages, York Street, Cheltenham on 14 December 1903.
Afterwards he attempted suicide.
They had lived together and had intended to get married.
The night before in the pub he had said that that he had been out of work and on the tramp and rather than do it again he would have a bit of rope. he had also previously threatened to do for both of them.
see National Archives - ASSI 6/39/1
see Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 19 February 1904
see Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 11 March 1904