Age: 44
Sex: female
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 14 Aug 1907
Crime Location: On a train between Llanishen and Cardiff
Execution Place: Cardiff
Method: hanging
Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Rhoda Willis was convicted of the murder of a newly-born child called Treasure.
She asphyxiated her on a train between Llanishen and Cardiff on 4 April 1907.
see National Archives - ASSI 72/33/2, HO 144/861/155396
see Hull Daily Mail - Wednesday 14 August 1907
see Sheffield Evening Telegraph - Wednesday 14 August 1907
see Homicide 1907