British Executions

Thomas Foster

Age: 45

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 31 Jul 1919

Crime Location: 15 Stainsbury Street, Bethnal Green, London

Execution Place: Pentonville

Method: hanging

Executioner: John Ellis

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/

Thomas Foster was convicted of the murder of his wife 33-year-old Minnie Foster and sentenced to death.

He cut her throat in a back room at 15 Stainsbury Street, Bethnal Green, London on 11 June 1919.

see National Archives - CRIM 1/178/4, HO 144/1531/385077

see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Wednesday 11 June 1919

see Homicide 1919