Age: 23
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 19 Mar 1913
Crime Location: Mina Road, Bristol
Execution Place: Bristol
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Edward Henry Palmer was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Ada Louisa James 21 and sentenced to death.
He cut her throat near Mina Road, Bristol on 27 January 1913.
Edward Palmer was a chairmaker and had been seeing Ada James for between two and three years.
In June 1912 Edward Palmer got one month for stealing tools at the Bristol Petty Sessions and after his release he went to Canada but returned just before Christmas 1912.
see National Archives - HO 144/1253/234638
see Homicide 1913
