Age: 26
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 28 Jun 1898
Crime Location: East Street, St Neots
Execution Place: Cambridge Prison
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.co.uk
Walter Horsford was convicted of the murder of his 38-year-old cousin Annie Holmes with whom he had had connections and made pregnant.
Walter Horsford was a farmer at Spaldwick, Huntingdon and Annie Holmes lived in Stonely, Spaldwick with her three children.
see National Archives - HO 144/273/A59699
see Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Thursday 30 June 1898
see Luton Times and Advertiser - Friday 01 July 1898
see Evening News (London) - Monday 06 June 1898
see Northern Guardian (Hartlepool) - Tuesday 28 June 1898
see Weekly Dispatch (London) - Sunday 05 June 1898
see Cambridge News
