British Executions

Samuel Thomas Walton

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