Age: 39
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 10 Mar 1920
Crime Location: Pigeon Spring, Horse Market, Caistor, Lincolnshire
Execution Place: Lincoln
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
William Wright was convicted of the murder of his 34-year-old girlfriend Annie Coulbeck and sentenced to death.
He strangled her at Pigeon Spring, Horse Market, Caistor on 28 October 1919.
see National Archives - PCOM 8/168, HO 144/1620/397681, ASSI 13/50
see YouTube
see Sheffield Independent - Tuesday 03 February 1920
see Globe - Monday 02 February 1920
see Nottingham Evening Post - Monday 23 February 1920
see Homicide 1920
