British Executions

Samuel Holden

Age: 43

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 16 Aug 1904

Crime Location: Court 11, 2 Back 109 Coventry Street, Birmingham

Execution Place: Birmingham

Method: hanging

Executioner: William Billington

Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.co.uk

Samuel Holden was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Susan Humphries and sentenced to death.

He stabbed her to death at Court 11, 2 Back 109 Coventry Street, Birmingham on 2 July 1904.

see Dundee Courier - Saturday 30 July 1904

see Shields Daily Gazette - Tuesday 16 August 1904

see National Archives - ASSI 13/34, HO 144/766/120809

see National Library of Scotland

see Homicide 1904