Age: 49
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 15 Feb 1910
Crime Location: Waltham Avenue, Holyhead
Execution Place: Caernarfon
Method: hanging
Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
William Murphy was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Gwen Ellen Jones 36 and sentenced to death.
He cut her throat in a field near Waltham Avenue in Holyhead on 25 December 1909 and then threw her into a drainage ditch.
see National Archives - ASSI 65/18/1, HO 144/1056/188303
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 15 February 1910
see Bolton Evening News - Monday 27 December 1909
see Illustrated Police News - Saturday 01 January 1910
see Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Friday 07 January 1910
see Daily Post
see BBC
see Homicide 1910
