Age: 32
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 19 Aug 1908
Crime Location: Collyford, Saline, Fife
Execution Place: Perth
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Edward Johnstone was convicted of the murder of his 25-year-old girlfriend Jane Wallace Withers and sentenced to death.
He cut her throat at Collyford in Fife on 7 June 1908.
see Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Tuesday 18 August 1908
see Western Times - Thursday 20 August 1908
see Hull Daily Mail - Wednesday 19 August 1908
see Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 19 August 1908
see Homicide 1908
