Age: 44
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 23 Dec 1902
Crime Location: 10 Andrew Marvel Terrace, Campbell Street, Hull
Execution Place: Hull
Method: hanging
Executioner: William Billington
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
William James Bolton was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Jane Elizabeth Allen and sentenced to death.
He stabbed her to death on 18 October 1902 at 10 Andrew Marvel Terrace, Campbell Street in Hull. It was said that he had stabbed her three times and that any one of the stab wounds could have caused her death.
see Hull Daily Mail - Tuesday 04 November 1902
see Leeds Mercury - Tuesday 21 October 1902
see Bournemouth Daily Echo - Tuesday 23 December 1902
see Homicide 1902