Age: 32
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 27 Mar 1894
Execution Place: Nottingham
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
Walter Smith murdered Catherine Mary Cross 25 who he shot to death at Abbots Factory, Forest Street, Hyson Green on 2 December 1893. She died on the 6 December.
Catherine Cross was a nurse in Liverpool and had been to Nottingham to see her mother arriving on 25 November. On 28 November she went to see some friends and met the mother of Walter Smith who invited her to her place for tea and whilst there she met Walter Smith for the first time by chance.
