Thomas Tattersall

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox criminal

| name = Thomas Tattersall

| image_name =

| image_size =

| image_caption =

| birth_name = Thomas George Tattersall1901 England Census

| birth_date = 12 July 1874West Yorkshire, Non-Conformist Records, 1646-1985England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915

| birth_place = Wakefield, Yorkshire, England

| death_date = 15 August 1905 (aged 31)

| death_place = Leeds, Yorkshire, England

| alias =

| conviction = Murder

| conviction_penalty = Hanging

| occupation = Plasterer

| spouse = Rebecca Tattersall

| parents =

| children = Laura

}}

Thomas George Tattersall (12 July 1874 – 15 August 1905)[http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/hanged1.html "English & Welsh executions 1900 - 1931"]. capitalpunishmentuk.org. Retrieved 2010-11-15. was an English plasterer who was convicted of murdering his wife.

Tattersall, from Wakefield, was a notorious drunk. He would often threaten his wife, Rebecca, and the police had once put their house under surveillance because of this. On 3 July 1905, Tattersall cut Rebecca's throat with a razor and fractured her skull with an axe. He was discovered by the couple's daughter, Laura, who subsequently told their neighbours about what had happened.[http://www.truecrimelibrary.com/this_week_in_crime.php?id=208 "'My Daddy's Killing My Mammy!'"]. truecrimelibrary.com. Retrieved 2010-11-15.

The following day, Tattersall was arrested at a railway station. He pleaded insanity, but to no avail, and was sentenced to death by Mr Justice Jelf. He was hanged at Armley Prison in Leeds, on 15 August 1905.

His executioner, John Billington, died two months later due to a fall he had sustained while preparing for Tattersall's hanging.Fielding, Steve. [https://books.google.com/books?id=hvu1GQAACAAJ The Executioner's Bible: The Story of Every British Hangman of the Twentieth Century]. (John Blake, 2008), pp. 55-56.