British Executions

George Frederick Edisbury

Age: 44

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 3 Jan 1923

Crime Location: 64 Higher Cambridge Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock

Execution Place: Manchester

Method: hanging

Executioner: John Ellis

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

George Frederick Edisbury was convicted of the murder of his landlady, 50-year-old Winifred Drinkwater and sentenced to death.

He cut her throat at 64 Higher Cambridge Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock on 29 July 1922.

see National Archives - ASSI 52/332, HO 144/2733

see Homicide 1923