British Executions

Conrad Donovan

Age: 35

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 13 Dec 1904

Crime Location: 478 Comercial Road, Stepney, London

Execution Place: Pentonville

Method: hanging

Executioner: William Billington

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/

Charles Wade and Conrad Donovan were convicted of the murder of Matilda Emily Farmer 65 and sentenced to death.

They had robbed Matilda Farmer's newsagents at 478 Commercial Road, Stepney, London and left her tied up and bound resulting in her asphyxiation on 12 October 1904.

see National Archives - CRIM 1/96/1, HO 144/774/123885, HO 144/774/123885

see London Daily News - Thursday 13 October 1904

see St James's Gazette - Tuesday 22 November 1904

see Derby Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 06 December 1904

see Illustrated Police News - Saturday 10 December 1904

see Worthing Gazette - Wednesday 19 October 1904

see Homicide 1904