Age: 23
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 22 Feb 1910
Crime Location: Queens Park Pit, Burnley
Execution Place: Manchester
Method: hanging
Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
Joseph Wren was convicted for the murder of John Collins 3 and sentenced to death.
He strangled him and cut his throat on a slag heap, near Queen's Park pit in Burnley on 28 December 1909.
see North Devon Journal - Thursday 10 February 1910
see National Archives - ASSI 52/168, HO 144/1058/188656
see Homicide 1910
