Age: 42
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 16 Nov 1915
Crime Location: 8 Plantation Road, Leighton Buzzard
Execution Place: Bedford
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: Bedford
William Benjamin Reeve was convicted of the murder of his wife Harriett Reeve 40 and sentenced to death.
He shot her at their home at 8 Plantation Road, Leighton Buzzard on 5 July 1915 while she sat in a chair and then attempted to commit suicide.
see National Archives - ASSI 13/45, PCOM 9/736, HO 144/1440/301537
see Aberdeen Journal - Wednesday 20 October 1915
see Luton Times and Advertiser - Friday 09 July 1915
see Leicester Daily Post - Wednesday 17 November 1915
see Bedfordshire Times and Independent - Friday 19 November 1915
see Homicide 1915
