Age: 28
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 30 Dec 1902
Crime Location: Baddesley Ensor
Execution Place: Warwick
Method: hanging
Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
George Place was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Eliza Chetwynd, her baby daughter and her mother Eliza Chetwynd and was sentenced to death.
He shot them all.
George Place had taken lodgings at Eliza Chetwynd's home and over time developed a relationship with the daughter, Eliza Chetwynd and had a child. When the mother advised her daughter to take out a summons for the support of the child George Place left.
He was later seen in a pub with a revolver saying that he was going to pay all three of them.
He went back to their rooms in the early morning and shot them all.
see Tamworth Herald - Saturday 06 September 1902
see Lichfield Mercury - Friday 02 January 1903
see National Archives - ASSI 13/32