Age: 25
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 8 May 1909
Crime Location: Ynysfach, Merthyr Tydfil
Execution Place: Swansea
Method: hanging
Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
William Joseph Foy was convicted for the murder of his girlfriend Mary Ann Rees 33 and sentenced to death.
He beat her at Ynysfach, Merthyr Tydfil on 24 December 1908 and then threw her down a disused furnace.
see EOTD
see Trove
see Dundee Courier - Thursday 01 April 1909
see Western Times - Monday 10 May 1909
see National Archives - ASSI 72/35/1, HO 144/909/177565
note - picture is of Mary Ann Rees
see Homicide 1909
