Age: 35
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 9 Aug 1905
Crime Location: 7 Old Priory, Birkenhead
Execution Place: Knutsford
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Billington
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
William Alfred Hancocks was convicted of the murder of his daughter Mary Elizabeth Hancocks 15 and sentenced to death.
He stabbed her in the forehead at 7 Old Priory, Birkenhead on 23 March 1905 after threatening to murder his wife and afterwards ran out of the house and threw himself into the River Mersey. He had been drinking at the time.
see National Archives - HO 144/794/131163
see Gloucester Journal - Saturday 12 August 1905
see Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Saturday 12 August 1905
see Cornishman - Thursday 27 July 1905
see Homicide 1905
