British Executions

Edward Hopwood

Age: 45

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 29 Jan 1913

Crime Location: Fenchurch Street, London

Execution Place: 1913

Method: hanging

Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint

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

Edward Hopwood was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Florence Alice Bernadette Silles 34 and sentenced to death.

He shot her in a taxi-cab in Fenchurch Street, London on 28 September 1912.

see National archives - CRIM 1/136, HO 144/1229/228792

see Homicide 1913