Age: 44
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 20 Dec 1916
Crime Location: Grey Horse Public House, Howard Street, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland
Execution Place: Durham
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Joseph Deans murdered his girlfriend Catherine Convery 48 who he battered to death at the Grey Horse public house in Howard Street, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland on 7 October 1916.
Joseph Deans had been a miner. In 1897 he was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment for assaulting a police officer. After his release he later went to South Africa where he worked as a gold miner for 17 years, returning to England in 1913 with sufficient means to enable him to live without working.
see National Archives - HO 144/1468/323522
see Homicide 1916
