Age: 25
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 19 Feb 1919
Crime Location: Love Lane, Shaw-cum-Donnington, Newbury
Execution Place: Oxford
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Joseph Rose was convicted of the murder of his cousin 19-year-old Sarah Rose and his 5-month-old daughter Isabella Rose and sentenced to death.
He cut their throats in Love Lane, Shaw-cum-Donnington, near Newbury on 28 October, 1918.
see National Archives - ASSI 6/54/6, HO 144/1510/375024
see Cornishman - Wednesday 22 January 1919
see Westminster Gazette - Wednesday 19 February 1919
see Aberdeen Press and Journal - Friday 17 January 1919
see Reading Observer - Saturday 25 January 1919
see Homicide 1919