Age: 59
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 19 Dec 1917
Crime Location: 37 Upper Galdeford, Ludlow
Execution Place: Shrewsbury
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Thomas Cox was convicted of the murder of his wife Elizabeth Cox 49 and sentenced to death.
He cut her throat at 37 Upper Galdeford, Ludlow on 11 August 1917.
see National Archives - ASSI 6/52/3, HO 144/1486/351804
see Illustrated Police News - Thursday 06 September 1917
see Aberdeen Press and Journal - Thursday 20 December 1917
see Manchester Evening News - Monday 03 December 1917
see Homicide 1917