British Executions

Michael Collins

Age: 30

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 24 May 1911

Crime Location: 42 A-Block, Peabody Buildings, Glasshouse Street, London

Execution Place: Pentonville

Method: hanging

Executioner: John Ellis

Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Michael Collins was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Elizabeth Anne Kempster 29 and sentenced to death.

He beat her about the head with a hammer and then cut her throat with a razor at 42 A-Block, Peabody Buildings in Glasshouse Street, London on 25 March 1911.

see National Archives - CRIM 1/120/2, HO 144/1138/207922

see Homicide 1911