British Executions

James Hughes

Age:

Sex: male

Crime: Forgery

Date Of Execution: 9 Apr 1802

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Exeter County Gaol

Method: hanging

Executioner:

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/1800.html

Devonshire

James Hughes (aged 25) guilty of forging and uttering a £2 bank of England Note with intent to defraud the Governors of the Bank of England in the parish of Plymouth St Andrew on 8th September 1801. Buried St Sidwell, Exeter on12th April.