Age: 51
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 7 Dec 1918
Crime Location: 44 Paddington, Liverpool
Execution Place: Manchester
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
William Rooney was convicted of the murder of his sister-in-law Mary Ellen Rooney 32 and sentenced to death.
He stabbed her in a shop at 44 Paddington, Liverpool on 2 November 1918.
see National Archives - ASSI 52/281, HO 144/1505/372419
see Lancashire Evening Post - Monday 25 November 1918
see Homicide 1918
