Age: 24
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 10 Apr 1917
Crime Location: Bute Street, Cardiff
Execution Place: Cardiff
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Alex Bakerlis was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Winifred Ellen Fortt 19 and sentenced to death.
He stabbed her to death in Bute Street, Cardiff near St Mary's Church on 25 December 1916 as she was returning from a party. He stabbed her dozens of times and then ran off but was stopped by a policeman.
see National Archives - HO 144/1474/331761
see Dundee Courier - Wednesday 03 January 1917
see Shields Daily News - Wednesday 07 March 1917
see Homicide 1917
