Age: 52
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 16 Aug 1904
Crime Location: 224 Sheffield Road, Ickles, Rotherham
Execution Place: Leeds
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Billington
Source: http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
John Thomas Kay was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Jane Hirst 43 and sentenced to death.
He battered her to death at 224 Sheffield Road, Ickles, Rotherham on 10 May 1904. Afterwards he gave himself up and confessed to killing her.
see National Archives - HO 144/766/120810
see Dundee Courier - Saturday 30 July 1904
see Derby Daily Telegraph - Saturday 14 May 1904
see Western Gazette - Friday 13 May 1904
see Shields Daily Gazette - Saturday 30 July 1904
see Dundee Evening Post - Friday 13 May 1904
see Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Tuesday 10 May 1904
see Homicide 1904
