Age: 30
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 21 Dec 1904
Crime Location: Bridgend Hotel, Pentre, Ystrad, Rhondda
Execution Place: Cardiff
Method: hanging
Executioner: William Billington
Source: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Eric Lange was convicted of the murder of John Emlyn Jones 37 and sentenced to death.
He battered and stabbed him to death at the Bridgend Hotel, Pentre, Ystrad, Rhondda on 11 September 1904.
see National Archives - ASSI 72/30/8, HO 144/773/123544
see East & South Devon Advertiser. - Saturday 17 December 1904
see Illustrated Police News - Saturday 17 September 1904
see Homicide 1904