Age: 27
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 20 Dec 1912
Crime Location: 39 North Ormesby Road, Middlesbrough
Execution Place: Wakefield
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4151445
William Wallace Galbraith was convicted of the murder of his wife Mary May Galbraith 20 and sentenced to death.
He cut her throat at 39 North Ormesby Road, Middlesbrough on 14 August 1912.
She was four months pregnant at the time and had obtained work as a barmaid.
William Galbraith had served for three years in the Army Medical Corps and in April 1912 he married Mary Galbraith and they went to live with William Galbraith's mother but on 3 August 1912 at 11.30pm Mary Galbraith left him and went to live with her mother at 39 North Ormesby Road in Middlesbrough. She had told her mother that she was afraid to remain with William Galbraith and also told a friend, 'I am terrified for my life and must go'.
see National Archives - HO 144/1239/230808
see Homicide 1912
