Age: 25
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 29 Mar 1916
Crime Location: 6 Ellis Street, Burnley
Execution Place: Manchester
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Reginald Haslam was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Isabella Holmes Conway 35 and sentenced to death.
He strangled her at 6 Ellis Street, Burnley on 23 December 1915.
Reginald Haslam and Isabella Conway had been living at 6 Ellis Street for about four months when on 20 December 1915 he left and went to stay with his mother at 3 Pitt Street, Burnley.
On the night of 22 December Reginald Haslam went back to 6 Ellis Street and knocked on the door but Isabella Conway would not let him in. He asked her who she had in there with her and looked through the letterbox and saw a soldier that he recognised as his sisters husband.
see The Burnley News - Wednesday 29 December 1915 (includes picture of both parties)
see Homicide 1916
