British Executions

Amelia Sach

Age: 29

Sex: female

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 3 Feb 1903

Crime Location: 11 Danbury Street, Islington

Execution Place: Holloway

Method: hanging

Executioner: William Billington

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Sach_and_Annie_Walters

Amelia Sach and Annie Walters were convicted of murdering a three-month-old child and executed.

Amelia Sach had given the child to Annie Walters to dispose of and Annie Walters then poisoned and asphyxiated it at her home in Islington on 18 November 1902 by giving it a drug which contained opium or morphia after which she went out to dispose of it but was arrested.

see National Archives - HO 144/690/104226, CRIM 1/83/2

see Shady Old Lady

see Derbyshire Courier - Saturday 07 February 1903

see Penny Illustrated Paper - Saturday 24 January 1903

see Old Bailey Online

see Homicide 1903