High treason in the United Kingdom sentenced to be shot or hanged for this offence instead of for treason (one death sentence was commuted). Theodore Schurch was the last person to be put to death for treachery, in 1946. He was also the last person to be executed for a crime other than murder. Josef Jakobs, a German spy executed for treachery, was the last person to be executed in the Tower of London. The Treachery Act 1940 was suspended in February 1946, and was repealed in 1967. In June 1945 the Treason Act 1945 abolished the special rules of evidence and procedure formerly used in
Josef Peterhans le Mérite" (1938), a policeman in "Frau Luna" (1941) and a general in "Fridericus" (1937) and "The Great King" (1941). He also played the role of an Indian in "Indian Revenge" (1920) and in the double roles in "The Tiger of Eschnapur" and "The Indian Tomb" (both 1938). His last film was "Die Entlassung" (1942). He spent his life in Berlin-Steglitz. He ended his career with the second World War. Josef Peterhans Josef Thomas Peterhans (1882–1960) was a German actor. He began his film acting career at the age of twenty four years with the film ' in 1916. Before