British Executions

George Wood

Age: 29

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 10 Apr 1923

Crime Location: 96 Acre Lane, Cheadle Hulme

Execution Place: Liverpool

Method: hanging

Executioner: John Ellis

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

George Wood was convicted of the murder of 50-year-old Margaret Gilchrist White and sentenced to death. 

He strangled her at Invermay, 96 Acre Lane, Cheadle Hulme on 18 December 1922.

see National Archives - ASSI 65/27, HO 144/2759

see Homicide 1923