Age: 28
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 30 Dec 1902
Crime Location: Black Swan Yard, Watling Street, 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 20, her 11-day-old daughter and her mother Eliza Chetwynd 60 and was sentenced to death.
He shot them all.
see National Archives - ASSI 13/32, HO 144/685/103043
see Tamworth Herald - Saturday 06 September 1902
see Lichfield Mercury - Friday 02 January 1903
see Penny Illustrated Paper - Saturday 06 September 1902
see Homicide 1902