Age: 28
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 9 Apr 1941
Crime Location: Brook Vale Bridge, Waterloo, Liverpool
Execution Place: Liverpool
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupNam
Samuel Morgan murdered Mary Hagan 15 at Waterloo, Liverpool on 2 November 1940. He raped and strangled her.
Mary Hagan lived at 15 Brookside Avenue, Waterloo and had gone to the local shop to buy cigarette papers and an evening newspaper for her father at 6.45pm. When she hadnt returned buy 7.10pm her father became worried and she was soon found dead in a concrete blockhouse near Brook Vale Bridge.
see "Various." Times [London, England] 10 Apr. 1941: 9. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 2 Feb. 2014.
see National Archives - ASSI 52/520, PCOM 9/892, DPP 2/840, DPP 2/808