Age: 38
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 6 Sep 1916
Crime Location: 20 Cwm Canol Street, Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil
Execution Place: Swansea
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Daniel Sullivan murdered his wife Catherine Sullivan 35 who he battered to death on 8 July 1916.
Daniel Sullivan had been a coke ovens labourer at Dowlais and had married Catherine Sullivan a few years earlier. She had been a widow with two children and he had two children by her.
see National Archives - HO 144/1461/317792, ASSI 72/42/2
see Aberdeen Press and Journal - Thursday 07 September 1916
see Homicide 1916