British Executions

Edward Ernest Black

Age: 36

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 24 Mar 1922

Crime Location: Tregonissey, Cornwall

Execution Place: Exeter

Method: hanging

Executioner: John Ellis

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

Edward Ernest Black murdered his wife Annie Black 50 who he poisoned with arsenic at Tregonissey, Cornwall on 11 November 1921.

see National Archives - HO 144/1758/426469