Age:
Sex: male
Crime: Highway robbery
Date Of Execution: 25 Apr 1804
Execution Place:
Method: hanging
Executioner:
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/1800.html
Somersetshire
William Dowden (aged 22) and William Needs (aged 26) guilty of the highway robbery of John Pring in the parish of Budville (?) on 9th October 1803: robbing him of 6 shirts (valued at 15/-), a pair of shoes (valued at 2/-), a neck handkerchief (valued at 6d), a pair of stockings (valued at 6d), a pair of breeches (valued at 2/-), a hat (valued at 2/-), 5 gold guineas and a gold half guinea.