Age: 66
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 21 Dec 1898
Crime Location: Bugsworth
Execution Place: Derby
Method: hanging
Executioner: James and Thomas Billington
Source: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000644/18981130/003/0003
John Cotton was convicted of the murder of his wife and sentenced to death.
He was a boatman and lived in a canal boat with his wife.
He beat her over the head with a poker in the cabin of the canal boat.
see National Archives - ASSI 13/28, HO 144/275/A60617
