British Executions

Henry Cook

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: rioting

Date Of Execution: 15 Jan 1831

Crime Location: Winchester

Execution Place: unknown

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/1828.html

Henry Cook was convicted of breaking machinery.

Henry Cook was executed with James Thoms Cooper. After their bodies were removed from the scaffold, there were written in large letters behind it, 'Murder for murder, and blood for blood'.

see Chester Chronicle - Friday 21 January 1831

see Hampshire History