Age: 23
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 27 Dec 1905
Crime Location: 40 Wilson Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Execution Place: Stafford
Method: hanging
Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
William Frederick Edge was convicted of the murder of Francis Walter Evans, aged five months, and sentenced to death.
He cut his throat at 40 Wilson Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme on 28 September 1905.
see National Archives - ASSI 6/40/4
see Shetland Times - Saturday 16 December 1905
see Western Times - Saturday 07 October 1905
see Staffordshire Sentinel - Saturday 30 December 1905
see Homicide 1905
