British Executions

James Adams

Age: 32

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 11 Nov 1919

Crime Location: 29a Cameron Street, Glasgow

Execution Place: Duke Street, Glasgow

Method: hanging

Executioner: John Ellis

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

James Adams was convicted of the murder of Mary Kane 29 and sentenced to death but reprieved.

He cut her throat on 1 August 1919 at 29a Cameron Street, Glasgow.

see National Library of Scotland - AD15/19/88

see Dundee Courier - Wednesday 22 October 1919

see Dundee Courier - Wednesday 22 October 1919

see Dublin Evening Telegraph - Saturday 02 August 1919

see Western Gazette - Friday 08 August 1919

see Motherwell Times - Friday 17 October 1919

see Dundee Courier - Wednesday 22 October 1919

 

see Homicide 1919