Age: 29
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 24 Jun 1913
Crime Location: Sovell Plantation, Gussage St Michael, Dorset
Execution Place: Dorchester
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
William Walter Burton was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Winifred Mary Mitchell 24.
He shot her at Gussage St Michael, Dorset on 31 March 1913 and then buried her in a grave that he had previously dug for her in a plantation.
see National Archives - HO 144/1272/239008
see Homicide 1913
