British Executions

Edward Hartigan

Age: 58

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 27 Nov 1906

Crime Location: Peter Street, Portwood, Stockport

Execution Place: Knutsford

Method: hanging

Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint

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

Edward Hartigan was convicted of the murder of his wife Catherine Hartigan 45 and sentenced to death.

He battered her to death in Stockport on 7 August 1906.

see National Archives - HO 144/839/146070

see Gloucester Citizen - Wednesday 07 November 1906

see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Monday 26 November 1906

see Homicide 1906