Age: 26
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 4 Feb 1931
Crime Location: 150 Station Buildings, Keighley
Execution Place: Leeds
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Encyclopaedia-Executions-John-J-Eddleston/dp/1844540588
Frederick Gill murdered Oliver Preston at Oliver Preston's office in Station Buildings, Keighley on 25 July 1930.
Frederick Gill was convicted on mainly circumstantial evidence. Oliver Preston had been beaten to death in his office and a man had seen Frederick Gill leaving the office shortly beforehand and blood was also found on his clothes as well as the fact that he had suddenly started to spend a lot of money when only days before he was in debt.
