Age: 42
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 14 May 1914
Crime Location: 64 Oliver Street, Liverpool
Execution Place: Liverpool
Method: hanging
Executioner: William Willis
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.co.uk
Joseph Spooner was convicted of the murder of his three-year-old daughter Elizabeth Alice Spooner and sentenced to death.
He cut her throat at the rear of 64 Oliver Street in Liverpool on 26 February 1914 and she died in hospital the following day, 27 February 1914.
see Western Daily Press - Friday 15 May 1914
see National Archives - ASSI 52/223, HO 144/1313/251192
see Illustrated Police News - Thursday 05 March 1914
see Homicide 1914
