British Executions

Joseph Jones

Age: 60

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 26 Mar 1907

Crime Location: 18 Victoria Road, Quarry Bank, Stafford

Execution Place: Stafford

Method: hanging

Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/

Joseph Jones murdered his 28-year-old son-in-law Edmund Clarke and was sentenced to death.

He cut his throat and battered him at Quarry Bank, Stafford on 1 December 1906.

see Dundee Courier - Friday 08 March 1907

see Lichfield Mercury - Friday 07 December 1906

see National Archives - HO 144/849/149977

see County Advertiser & Herald for Staffordshire and Worcestershire - Saturday 09 March 1907

see Homicide 1907