Age: 24
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 27 Feb 1929
Crime Location: 37 Tachbrook Street, Pimlico, London
Execution Place: Pentonville
Method: hanging
Executioner: Robert Baxter
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C4200564
William Holmyard murdered his grandfather William Holmyard 73 at 37 Tachbrook Street, Pimlico, London.
William Holmyard beat him to death with some copper fire tongs during a row about William Holmyard borrowing money off of his grandfather. William Holmyard had borrowed some money before and repaid it but William Holmyard had told his parents about the arrangements causing them to argue.
see The Straits Times, 25 January 1929, Page 10
see National Archives - CRIM 1/454, CRIM 1/455, HO 144/11213, PCOM 9/270
