British Executions

Thomas Mellor

Age: 29

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 16 Aug 1900

Crime Location: Glebe Road, Holbeck, Leeds

Execution Place: Leeds

Method: hanging

Executioner: James Billington

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

Thomas Mellor was convicted of the murder of his daughter, 6-year-old Ada Beecroft and sentenced to death.

He threw her, along with her 4-year-old sister Annie Beecroft, in to the canal at Glebe Road, Holbeck, Leeds on Saturday, 11 May 1900.

see National Archives - HO 144/281/A62017

see Murder UK

 

see Homicide 1900