Age: 47
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 12 Aug 1902
Crime Location: Tividale, Staffordshire
Execution Place: Stafford
Method: hanging
Executioner: William Billington
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk
William Lane was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Elizabeth Dyson 67 and sentenced to death.
He cut her throat on 26 June 1902 in Tividale.
see National Archives - ASSI 6/37/4, HO 144/581/A63544
see Tamworth Herald - Saturday 26 July 1902
see Northampton Mercury - Friday 25 July 1902
see Rugby Advertiser - Tuesday 12 August 1902
see County Advertiser & Herald for Staffordshire and Worcestershire - Saturday 26 July 1902
see Homicide 1902
