British Executions

George Joseph Smith

Age: 43

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 13 Aug 1915

Crime Location: Herne Bay, Blackpool and Highgate

Execution Place: Maidstone Prison

Method: hanging

Executioner: John Ellis

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_Kingdom

George Joseph Smith was convicted of the murder of three women, Beatrice Constance Annie Mundy 31, Alice Burnham 25 and Margaret Elizabeth Lofty 38, and sentenced to death.

He drowned them all in baths and the case became known as 'The Brides in the Bath Murders'.

see National Archives - PCOM 8/138, MEPO 3/225B, HO 144/1404/273877, HO 144/1405/273877, CRIM 1/154, CRIM 1/155

see Networked Knowledge

see Wikipedia

see Murderpedia

see Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Saturday 03 July 1915

see Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 16 February 1915

see Leicester Daily Post - Saturday 26 June 1915

see Homicide 1915