Age: 22
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 23 Jul 1912
Crime Location: Jubilee Mill, Gate Street, Blackburn
Execution Place: Manchester
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Arthur Birkett was convicted of the murder of his ex-girlfriend Alice Beetham 18 and sentenced to death.
He cut her throat at Jubilee Mill in Gate Street, Blackburn on 20 May 1912.
see National Archives - ASSI 52/184, HO 144/1218/225650
see Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 23 July 1912
see Dundee Courier - Saturday 06 July 1912
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 23 July 1912
see UK Textile Mills
see Homicide 1912
