Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 3 Oct 1899
Crime Location: 2 Daintry Street, Hackney, London
Execution Place: unknown
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://greggmanning.scstamps.co.uk/Murder1/DOCP.HTML
Frederick Preston was convicted of the murder of his 19-year-old girlfriend Eliza Jane Mears and sentenced to death.
They had been seeing each other for a while but her mother urged her to give him up because of the way he treated her and he beat her to death with a blunt instrument.
see National Archives - CRIM 1/56/10, HO 144/278/A61341
see Islington Gazette - Monday 17 July 1899
see Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper - Sunday 17 September 1899
see National Library of Scotland
see Homicide 1899
