Age: 31
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 16 Dec 1902
Crime Location: Middletone Moor, Spennymoor
Execution Place: Durham
Method: hanging
Executioner: William Billington
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Samuel Thomas Walton was convicted of the murder of his wife Isabella Walton 49, his 11-month-old daughter Esther Jane Walton and Mother-in-Law Isabella Young 53. He was sentenced to death.
After he cut his throat.
see Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Wednesday 17 September 1902
see Nottingham Evening Post - Thursday 18 September 1902
see Cheltenham Chronicle - Saturday 20 September 1902
see Dundee Courier - Monday 22 September 1902
see Leeds Mercury - Wednesday 17 September 1902
see Homicide 1902