Age: 47
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 16 Jul 1907
Crime Location: Highfield Road, Chesterfield
Execution Place: Derby
Method: hanging
Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
William Edward Slack was convicted of the murder of 40-year-old Lucy Wilson and sentenced to death.
He attacked her with a hatchet in Highfield Road, Chesterfield on 18 March 1907.
see National Archives - HO 144/859/154022, ASSI 13/37
see Empire News & The Umpire - Sunday 30 June 1907
see Derbyshire Times - Saturday 23 March 1907
see Homicide 1907
