Age: 28
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 21 Aug 1894
Execution Place: Leeds
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20070624062456/http://www.fred.net/jefalvey/execute.h
Murder of infant son; Leeds
Twenty eight year old Alfred Dews was an iron moulder from Wakefield who was sentenced to death at Leeds Assizes for the murder of his infant son. Dews poisoned the child after a jealous quarrel with his wife when he became convinced he wasn't the child's father. He claimed he was innocent to the last and left a will telling his wife how to dispose of his property. He was hanged by James Billington in Leeds on the 21st August 1894.
