British Executions

William Thomas Hodgson

Age: 34

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 16 Aug 1917

Crime Location: 16 Central Park Avenue, Wallasey, Liverpool

Execution Place: Liverpool

Method: hanging

Executioner: John Ellis

Source: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4151481

William Thomas Hodgson was convicted of the murder of his wife Margaret Alderson Hodgson 37 and daughter Margaret Hodgson 3 and was sentenced to death.

He battered them to death at 16 Central Park Avenue, Wallasey, Liverpool on 16 April 1917.

see National Archives - ASSI 65/22/4, HO 144/1480/344006

see History of Wallasey

see Illustrated Police News - Thursday 26 April 1917

see Homicide 1917