Age: 40
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 19 Dec 1922
Crime Location: Binswood End, Harbury, Warwickshire
Execution Place: Birmingham
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
William Rider was convicted of the murder of his 24-year-old wife Rosilla Patience Bourton and sentenced to death.
She left him on hearing that their marriage was bigamous and found that he had been seeing her younger sister, and he later forced his way into her bedroom at Binswood End, Harbury, Warwickshire, and shot her, on 7 September 1922.
see National Archives - ASSI 13/52, HO 144/1770/439572
see National Library of Scotland
see Coleshill Chronicle - Saturday 09 December 1922
see Western Daily Press - Tuesday 26 September 1922
see Banbury Advertiser - Thursday 14 September 1922 (pictures)
see Homicide 1922
