British Executions

Walter Marsh

Age: 39

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 27 Dec 1906

Crime Location: 6 Goytside Terace, Brampton

Execution Place: Derby

Method: hanging

Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint and John Ellis

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

Walter Marsh was convicted of the murder of his wife Eliza Marsh 22 and sentenced to death.

He cut her throat with a razor on 9 July 1906. He claimed great provocation saying that she was idle and intemperate.

see Grantham Journal - Saturday 29 December 1906

see Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Thursday 06 December 1906

see Sheffield Independent - Saturday 21 July 1906

see National Archives - ASSI 13/36, HO 144/842/147005

see Homicide 1906