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 was convicted of the murder of his 50-year-old wife Annie Black and sentenced to death.
He poisoned her with arsenic at Tregonissey, Cornwall on 11 November 1921.
see National Archives - HO 144/1758/426469, PCOM 8/11
see Staffordshire Sentinel - Monday 06 March 1922
see Staffordshire Sentinel - Wednesday 01 February 1922
see Reynolds's Newspaper - Sunday 08 January 1922
see Homicide 1922
