Age: 28
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 9 Jul 1913
Crime Location: Fountain Inn, Albion Street, Brades, Oldbury
Execution Place: Worcester
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Thomas Fletcher was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Lilian Wharton 21 and sentenced to death.
He shot her in the tap room of the Fountain Inn in Albion Street, Brades on 1 April 1913. She was taken to West Bromwich Hospital where she died from peritonitis on 8 April 1913.
see National Archives - ASSI 6/48/6, HO 144/1273/239171
see Grantham Journal - Saturday 12 July 1913
see Illustrated Police News - Thursday 10 April 1913
see Homicide 1913
