Age: 43
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 27 Mar 1917
Crime Location: Constitution Hill Farm, Molescroft, Beverley
Execution Place: Leeds
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
John Thompson was convicted of the murder of Lily Tindale 13 and sentenced to death.
He cut her throat at Constitution Hill Farm, Molescroft, near Beverley on 15 February 1917.
see National Archives - HO 144/1475/332005
see Hull Daily Mail - Saturday 24 February 1917
see Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 27 March 1917
see Homicide 1917
