Age: 35
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 17 Dec 1918
Crime Location: 15 Calder Terrace, Bottomboat, Wakefield
Execution Place: Leeds
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
John William Walsh was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Ruth Elizabeth Moore 42 and sentenced to death.
He strangled her at Calder Terrace, Bottomboat, near Wakefield on 11 July 1918.
see National Archives - HO 144/1505/372642
see Wakefield Express - Saturday 20 July 1918
see West Bridgford Advertiser - Saturday 28 December 1918
see Homicide 1918
