British Executions

Alfred Highfield

Age: 22

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 17 Jul 1900

Crime Location: Great Queen Street, London

Execution Place: Newgate

Method: hanging

Executioner: James Billington

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/

Alfred Highfield was convicted of the murder of his ex-girlfriend Edith Poole 19.

He cut her throat in Great Queen Street, London on 13 May 1900.

see National Archives - HO 144/281/A61924

see Murder UK

see Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 10 October 2015), June 1900, trial of ALFRED HIGHFIELD (21) (t19000625-406).

see True Crime Library

see The Encyclopedia Of Executions by John J Eddleston

see Wikipedia

see Homicide 1900