Age: 30
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 29 Dec 1905
Crime Location: 29 Spa Lane, Chesterfield
Execution Place: Derby
Method: hanging
Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
John Silk was convicted of the murder of his mother Mary Fallon 56 and sentenced to death.
He battered her to death at 29 Spa Lane, Chesterfield on 5 August 1905.
John Silk lived with his mother, who was a cripple, and a lodger at 29 Spa Lane.
Earlier on in the evening John Silk had been in Spa Lane talking to a person and told them, 'There'll be a murder down Spa Lane tonight, and it will be our old girl'.
see National Archives - HO 144/806/134946, ASSI 13/35
see Nottingham Evening Post - Friday 01 September 1905
see Homicide 1905
