Age: 54
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 19 Dec 1916
Crime Location: 9 Orange Street, Ashton-under-Lyne
Execution Place: Manchester
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
James Howarth Hargreaves was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Caroline McGhee 36 and sentenced to death.
He battered her to death at 9 Orange Street, Ashton-under-Lyne on 9 August 1916.
see National Archives - ASSI 52/231, ASSI 52/248, HO 144/1470/324090
see Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Wednesday 29 November 1916
see Lancashire Evening Post - Tuesday 19 December 1916
see Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 20 December 1916
see Homicide 1916
