Age: 31
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 24 Dec 1901
Crime Location: Rose Cottage, Bickerstaffe
Execution Place: Liverpool
Method: hanging
Executioner: William Billington
Source: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
John Harrison was convicted of the murder of Alice Ann Wright and sentenced to death.
The evidence against him was entirely circumstantial.
see National Archives - ASSI 52/57, HO 144/574/A63039
see Western Times - Friday 06 December 1901
see Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 06 December 1901
see Liverpool Daily Post - Thursday 19 December 1901
see The Scotsman - Wednesday 25 December 1901
see Dundee Courier - Wednesday 25 December 1901
see Homicide 1901