British Executions

Noah Percy Collins

Age: 24

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 30 Dec 1908

Crime Location: 5 Aberfawr Terrace, Abertridwr

Execution Place: Cardiff

Method: hanging

Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint

Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C4630853

Noah Percy Collins was convicted of the murder of his 19-year-old ex-girlfriend Annie Dorothy Lawrence and sentence to death.

He stabbed her to death at 5 Aberfawr Terrace, Abertridwr, near Caerphilly on 17 August 1908. He stabbed her seven times because she refused to kiss him and keep company with him. 

see Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Thursday 31 December 1908

see Tamworth Herald - Saturday 22 August 1908

see National Archives - ASSI 72/34/2, HO 144/892/172077

see Homicide 1908