Age: 29
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 1 Jan 1935
Crime Location: Wensley Bridge, Leyburn, Wensleydale
Execution Place: Leeds
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.co.uk
Lydia Binks and Frederick Rushworth were convicted of the murder of a new born child who they buried alive. They were both sentenced to death. Lydia Binks was reprieved and Frederick Rushworth was executed.
They went to a wood and when they got to a stile Lydia Binks said that she gave the child to Frederick Rushworth who had a shovel and started to dig a hole. She said then that she put her hands over her face and ran away and sat on a tree stump and cried. She said that while she was sitting there she could hear her baby crying which made her feel worse. On the way back Lydia Binks said that Frederick Rushworth said 'Cheer up. It will be dead now, and nobody will know'.
