British Executions

Joseph Rose

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