Age: 26
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 1 Dec 1915
Crime Location: 140 Devonport Street, Macclesfield
Execution Place: Liverpool
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4151667
John James Thornley was convicted of the murder of his former sweetheart Frances Johnson 24 and sentenced to death.
He cut her throat in Devonport Street, Macclesfield in the early morning of 18 September 1915.
see Chester Chronicle - Saturday 30 October 1915
see Birmingham Mail - Wednesday 01 December 1915
see Staffordshire Sentinel - Saturday 18 September 1915
see Birmingham Daily Post - Tuesday 16 November 1915
see Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Tuesday 21 September 1915
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Wednesday 27 October 1915
see Manchester Evening News - Monday 15 November 1915
see Western Times - Tuesday 28 September 1915
see National Archives - HO 144/1441/302303
see Homicide 1915
