British Executions

Samuel Morgan

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