Age: 23
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 30 Jan 1942
Crime Location: Rushall, Walsall
Execution Place: Birmingham
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C1257972
Arthur Peach murdered Kitty Lyon 18 who he shot in Rushall, near Walsall on 21 September 1941.
Kitty Lyon and a friend were walking when Arthur Peach shot them both with a pistol and then ran off with the other girls handbag. He was later seen to throw the pistol into a ditch.
see National archives - HO 144/21640, PCOM 9/911, MEPO 3/2189, ASSI 6/72/8, DPP 2/895
see Dundee Courier - Thursday 27 November 1941
