British Executions

Ernest Edward Kelly

Age: 20

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 17 Dec 1913

Crime Location: 43 Yorkshire Street, Oldham

Execution Place: Manchester

Method: hanging

Executioner: John Ellis

Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

Ernest Edward Kelly and Edward Wild Hilton were convicted of the murder of Daniel Wright Bardsley 54 and sentenced to death. However, Edward Hilton was later reprieved.

They battered him to death in Yorkshire Street, Oldham on 26 July 1913.

see Western Times - Tuesday 25 November 1913

see National Archives - HO 144/17280, HO 144/17281, ASSI 52/203

see Illustrated Police News - Thursday 25 December 1913

see Illustrated Police News - Thursday 31 July 1913

see Homicide 1913