Age: 38
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 24 Apr 1940
Execution Place: Wandsworth
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
William Charles Cowell murdered Anne Farrow Cook 33 by battering her to death in a wood near Hurtspierpoint East Sussex on 21 August 1939.
see National Archives - ASSI 36/400
