British Executions

Herbert George Bloye

Age: 27

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 12 Nov 1925

Crime Location: Town Farm, Swaffham

Execution Place: Norwich

Method: hanging

Executioner: Robert Baxter

Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.co.uk

Herbert George Bloye was convicted of the murder of his 52-year-old mother-in-law Clara Squires and his wife Alice Mabel Squires and sentenced to death.

He battered them to death in a field on Town Farm, Swaffham on 15 June 1925.

see National Archives - ASSI 36/38/3, HO 144/5369

see Western Daily Press - Wednesday 21 October 1925