British Executions

Daniel Sullivan

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