Age: 21
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 20 May 1902
Crime Location: 1 Horsedge Fold, Oldham, Lancashire
Execution Place: Liverpool
Method: hanging
Executioner: William Billington
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Thomas Marsland was convicted of the murder of Elizabeth Marsland 23 and sentenced to death.
He beat her with a rolling pin and then cut her throat at 1 Horsedge Fold, Oldham on Friday 4 April 1902. The evidence showed that Elizabeth Marsland's windpipe and gullet had been cut.
see National Archives - ASSI 52/68, HO 144/579/A63368
see Morpeth Herald - Saturday 12 April 1902
see Northern times and weekly journal for Sutherland and the North - Thursday 17 April 1902
see The Halesworth Times and East Suffolk Advertiser. - Tuesday 15 April 1902
see Morpeth Herald - Saturday 12 April 1902
see Waterford Standard - Wednesday 21 May 1902
see Sheffield Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 20 May 1902
see Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Saturday 03 May 1902
see Homicide 1902
