Age: 20
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 18 Mar 1902
Crime Location: Southborough, Tonbridge
Execution Place: Maidstone
Method: hanging
Executioner: William Billington
Source: http://greggmanning.scstamps.co.uk/Murder1/DOCA.HTML#Appleton,
Harold Apted was convicted of the murder of Frances O'Rourke 7 and sentenced to death.
Frances O'Rourke had been sent on an errand to pick up a parcel by her parents at 2pm. She arrived at the shop about an hour later and collected the parcel after waiting for some time and set off to return home at 3.50pm.
see Sussex Agricultural Express - Saturday 25 January 1902
see National Archives - HO 144/577/A63233
see Homicide 1902
