Age:
Sex: male
Crime: Riot
Date Of Execution: 6 Jan 1767
Crime Location:
Execution Place: Reading
Method: hannging
Executioner: unknown
Source:
http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/berks.html
Eckland, Simpson & Shelton tried by a Special Commission at Reading. Friday, 26 December 1766 (Jackson?s Oxford Journal) The above three were tried with others by a Special Commission which sat in Reading, Salisbury and Gloucester to deal with the agricultural rioters in those areas. Another Commission sat in Norwich.
