British Executions

Thomas Lloyd

Age: 55

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 18 Aug 1897

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Liverpool

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/1837.html

Thomas Lloyd murdered his wife Julia Lloyd in Liverpool. They had had a miserable life and on the day they were drunk and quarrelled during which he took an axe into the bedroom and hit the bed. The next day Julia Lloyd was found unconscious and later died.

see National Archives - ASSI 52/37

see Edinburgh Evening News - Saturday 31 July 1897