Age: 28
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 26 Nov 1919
Crime Location: New Delaval, Blyth
Execution Place: Newcastle
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Ernest Bernard Scott was convicted of the murder of his 25-year-old girlfriend Rebecca Jane Quinn and sentenced to death.
He cut her throat at New Delaval, near Blyth on 11 August 1919.
see National Archives - HO 144/1536
see Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 27 August 1919
see Blyth News - Thursday 06 November 1919
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Wednesday 26 November 1919
see Homicide 1919
