British Executions

Gilbert Oswald Smith

Age: 35

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 26 Nov 1912

Crime Location: Rockstowes, Dursley

Execution Place: Gloucester

Method: hanging

Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/

Gilbert Oswald Smith was convicted of the murder of his wife Rosabella Smith 30 and sentenced to death.

He cut her throat in Rockstowes, Dursley on 21 July 1912.

see National Archives - ASSI 6/47/3, HO 144/1234/229728

see Gloucester Journal - Saturday 03 August 1912

see Homicide 1912