Age: 24
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 15 Aug 1905
Crime Location: 60 Milton Avenue, Harlesden
Execution Place: Pentonville
Method: hanging
Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Arthur Devereux was convicted of the murder of his wife Beatrice Ellen Maud Devereux 25 and sentenced to death. He also killed their twins, Evelyn Devereux 2 and Lawrence Devereux 2, but was not tried for their murders.
He asphyxiated her with morphine at 60 Milton Avenue, Harlesden on 28 January 1905.
see National Archives - CRIM 1/97/7
see Murderpedia
see Trove
see Old Baily Online
see Capital Punishment UK (Facebook)
see Poisoned Lives: English Poisoners and Their Victims By Katherine D. Watson
see Law's Strangest Cases: Extraordinary but true tales from over five centuries ... By Peter Seddon
see Gloucester Journal - Saturday 22 April 1905
see Cheltenham Chronicle - Saturday 05 August 1905
see Western Times - Thursday 20 April 1905
see Homicide 1905