British Executions

John Francis Eayres

Age: 59

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 10 Nov 1914

Crime Location: 4 School Place, Albert Place, Peterborough

Execution Place: Northampton

Method: hanging

Executioner: John Ellis

Source: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4151428

John Francis Eayres was convicted of the murder of his wife Sarah Ann Eayres 53 and sentenced to death.

He cut her throat at 4 School Place, Albert Place in Peterborough on 22 August 1914.

see Aberdeen Journal - Wednesday 11 November 1914

see National Archives - ASSI 13/44, HO 144/1389/269207

see Homicide 1914