Two lovers' suicide pact together ended in disaster when their plan went horribly wrong.
In 1927 William Robertson and his girlfriend committed to a suicide pact, but when his own attempt failed he ended up facing the hangman anyway.
William, 37, lived in Channell Road in Kensington and was dating Evelyn Jennings, the owner of a hairdressing salon in Prescot Road - reports liverpoolhiddenhistory.co.uk
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On 15th August 1927 the couple went to Speke, then just a small country village, where William cut Evelyn's throat, killing her instantly.
When he tried to do the same to himself, William failed to do so and was found by a policeman crawling down a footpath where he passed the policeman a note which said: "I love her dearly, save her not me."
But Evelyn couldn't be saved as her throat had been cut with incredible force, meaning her head was almost severed from her body, which was lying in the bushes.
William was taken to Garston hospital where he pleaded with doctors to let him die, saying that Evelyn was fed up and couldn't go on, and that they had planned to die together.
He appeared at Widnes Police Court on September 12, when he was committed to the Assizes for trial.
On October 28 at the Liverpool Assizes his defence pleaded insanity but this was rejected and William was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death.
He was hanged by Thomas Pierrepoint on the morning of December 6, walking firmly and unassisted to the scaffold.
At the inquest two days later a doctor said that there was absolutely no doubt that Evelyn's wounds had been inflicted by somebody else.
Evelyn's brother, who lived in Chester, told the coroner that he had received a letter from her stating that she loved William but he was having no luck and they couldn't go on any more.
It said: "He is going and I don't feel I can possibly hang on without him. You will find us in a wood off Boundary Lane on the main road to Liverpool."
