Age: 57
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 24 Jul 1923
Crime Location: Stafford Street, Eccleshall
Execution Place: Shrewsbury
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
William Griffiths was convicted of the murder of his mother, 80-year-old Catherine Hughes and sentenced to death.
He cut her throat at Stafford Street, Eccleshall on 25 May 1923.
see National Archives - ASSI 6/58/4, HO 144/3012
see Shrewsbury Chronicle - Friday 27 July 1923
see Wellington Journal - Saturday 09 June 1923
see Homicide 1923
