Age: 35
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 11 May 1920
Crime Location: 192 Edge Lane Road, Oldham
Execution Place: Liverpool
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
William Waddington was convicted of the murder of 7-year-old Ivy Woolfenden and sentenced to death.
He raped her and battered her to death at 192 Edge Lane Road, Oldham on 14 February 1920.
see National Archives - ASSI 52/316, HO 144/1627/403128
see Dundee Courier - Thursday 22 April 1920
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Thursday 22 April 1920
see Lancashire Evening Post - Friday 20 February 1920
see National Library of Scotland
see Homicide 1920
