British Executions

Arthur Jeffries

Age: 44

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 29 Dec 1904

Crime Location: Salters Lane, Holmes, Rotherham

Execution Place: Leeds

Method: hanging

Executioner: John Billington

Source: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4143761

Arthur Jeffries was convicted of the murder of Samuel Barker and sentenced to death.

He stabbed him in a dark alley off Psalters Lane in Holmes, Rotherham on 12 November 1904.

see National Archives - HO 144/776/124347

see Dundee Courier - Friday 09 December 1904

see Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Thursday 29 December 1904

see Dundee Evening Post - Monday 14 November 1904

see Shields Daily Gazette - Friday 09 December 1904

see National Library of Scotland

see Homicide 1904