British Executions

Knowles

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: unknown

Date Of Execution: 30 Nov -0001

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Carlisle

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

Source: http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

Knowles was executed in Carlisle.

He had been a soldier in General Guifes Regiment.

He had been earlier repreived from a death sentence and transported for 2 years but he broke out of jail twice setting the other prisoners free.

He was taken in Dublin, sent as a deserter to his regiment in Gibralter and then sent to London and then onto Carlisle where he was tried on a fresh indictment.