Age: 27
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 8 Aug 1919
Crime Location: Hednesford Hill
Execution Place: Birmingham
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C4151450
Henry Gaskin was convicted of the murder of his wife, 23-year-old Elizabeth Gaskin and sentenced to death.
He strangled and battered her to death in woods at Hednesford Hill, Staffordshire, on 19 February 1919. He then decapitated her and started to dismember her body and hid it in a pond at some gasworks.
see National Archives - HO 144/1532/385637, ASSI 6/54/9
see Dundee Courier - Saturday 05 July 1919
see Cannock Chase DC
see Homicide 1919
