Age: 27
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 3 Dec 1895
Execution Place: Bedford
Method: hanging
Executioner: James Billington
Source: http://greggmanning.scstamps.co.uk/Murder1/docc.htm
Twenty seven year old Arthur Covington was convicted of the murder of his cousin, Effie Burgen who was twenty, in June. He had been paying her some attention while she was visiting his parents, and while they were left alone he shot her three times with his revolver. His defence of insanity was rejected and he was hanged by James Billington. One of the last acts that the condemned man did was to fill in the census form. He gave his address as 'The Condemned Cell, Bedford Gaol.' The sentence was carried out in Bedford on the 3rd December 1895
