British Executions

Eric Lange

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