Age: 29
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 8 Dec 1909
Crime Location: 20 Thames Street, Chopwell, Gateshead
Execution Place: Bagthorpre Gaol, Durham
Method: hanging
Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Abel Atherton was convicted of the murder of Elizabeth Ann Patrick 33 and sentenced to death.
He shot her at 20 Thames Street, Chopwell, near Gateshead on 11 August 1909.
see National Archives - HO 144/552/185620
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Friday 26 November 1909
see Nottingham Evening Post - Tuesday 14 December 1909
see Homicide 1909
