Treachery Act 1940 10 July 1941. Duncan Scott-Ford was also executed for treachery in November 1942. German agent Josef Jakobs, the last person to be executed in the Tower of London, was court-martialled and executed by firing squad under this Act. The last person to be executed under the Treachery Act was the British soldier Theodore Schurch, executed on 4 January 1946, who was the last person to be executed in the United Kingdom for an offence other than murder. A seventeenth person, Portuguese diplomat Rogerio de Magalhaes Peixoto de Menezes, was sentenced to death but had his sentence commuted by the Home
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