British Executions

Edward Harrison

Age: 62

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 28 Feb 1905

Crime Location: 49 Gosterwood Street, Deptford, London

Execution Place: Wandsworth

Method: hanging

Executioner: John Billington

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

Edward Harrison was convicted of the murder of his daughter Elizabeth Jane Rickus 30 and sentenced to death.

He cut her throat at Deptford, London on 26 January 1905. She was found dead in the kitchen nearly decapitated.

see National Archives - CRIM 1/96/6, HO 144/782/126186

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see Evening Star - Friday 27 January 1905

see Nottingham Evening Post - Friday 27 January 1905

see Homicide 1905