British Executions

George Woolfe

Age: 21

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 6 May 1902

Crime Location: Tottenham Marshes, London

Execution Place: Newgate

Method: hanging

Executioner: William Billington

Source: http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

George Woolfe battered and stabbed his girlfriend Charlotte Cheeseman 21 to death at Tottenham Marshes in London on 25 January 1902.

Her body was found by a polisher that had been out playing football on Tottenham Marshes on 26 January 1902 after his football went into a ditch.

see National Archives - CRIM 1/73/4, HO 144/578/A63257

see Western Daily Press - Wednesday 07 May 1902

see Herts & Cambs Reporter & Royston Crow - Friday 18 April 1902

see Bromyard News - Thursday 20 March 1902

see Greenock Telegraph and Clyde Shipping Gazette - Tuesday 06 May 1902

see Homicide 1902