Age: 21
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 28 Nov 1881
Crime Location: Sir Walter Scott Inn, Preston
Execution Place: Strangeways
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/1837.html
John Simpson murdered his sweatheart Ann Ratcliffe 16. He took her into the Sir Walter Scott Inn in Preston and cut her throat with a razor on 3 August 1881.
John Simpson worked in Preston in the office of a firm of solicitors and at the time of the murder was occupied in the District Registrar for marriages.
