Age: 25
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 15 Apr 1925
Execution Place: Durham
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Thomas Henry Shelton murdered his girlfriend Ruth Surtees Rodgers 25 whose throat he cut at 30 Abbey Street, Gateshead on 29 January 1925.
see "News in Brief." Times [London, England] 14 Apr. 1925: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 9 Dec. 2013.
see National Archives - ASSI 45/85/5
