Age: 28
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 30 Dec 1920
Crime Location: Council School, Crofton, Wakefield
Execution Place: Leeds
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Edwin Sowerby was convicted of the murder of his 19-year-old ex-girlfriend Jane Darwell and sentenced to death.
He cut her throat at a dance at the school house in Crofton near Wakefield on 25 October 1920.
see National Archives - PCOM 8/142, HO 144/1635/412874
see Globe - Thursday 30 December 1920
see Homicide 1920
