British Executions

Ada Chard Williams

Age: 24

Sex: female

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 6 Mar 1900

Crime Location: 3 Grove Road, Barnes, London

Execution Place: Newgate

Method: hanging

Executioner: James Billington

Source: http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t19000212-185&div=t19000212-185&ter

Ada Williams was convicted of the murder of 21-month-old Selina Ellen Jones and sentenced to death.

She battered and strangled her at Grove Road, Barnes, London and then threw her into the River Thames around 23 September, 1899.

see Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.0, 22 February 2014), February 1900, trial of WILLIAM CHARD WILLIAMS(47) ADA CHARD WILLIAMS(24) (t19000212-185).

see Wikipedia

see Execution Of The Day

see Western Times - Tuesday 20 February 1900

see National Archives - CRIM 1/59/4, HO 144/280/A61654

see Woolwich Herald - Friday 18 August 1899, p12

see Eastern Daily Press - Wednesday 07 March 1900

see Homicide 1900