Age: 48
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 11 Aug 1922
Crime Location: The Pheasant Inn, Broad Street, Bilston
Execution Place: Birmingham
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Elijah Pountney was convicted of the murder of his 47-year-old wife Alice Gertrude Pountney and sentenced to death.
He cut her throat at The Pheasant Inn in Broad Street, Bilston on 16 April 1922.
see National Archives - ASSI 6/57/1, HO 144/1768/434990
see Southern Reporter - Thursday 27 April 1922
see Lichfield Mercury - Friday 21 April 1922
see Homicide 1922
