Age: 23
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 13 Aug 1924
Crime Location: Windsor Bridge, Peel Park, Salford
Execution Place: Manchester
Method: hanging
Executioner: William Willis
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
John Charles Horner was convicted of the murder of 5-year-old Norman Widdowson Pinchin and sentenced to death.
He killed him near Windsor Bridge, on the canal, near Peel Park, Salford on 10 June 1924.
see National Archives - ASSI 52/356, HO 144/4116
see "Court Of Criminal Appeal." Times [London, England] 29 July 1924: 5. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 9 Dec. 2013.
