British Executions

George Trotter

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 29 Mar 1756

Crime Location:

Execution Place: York

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

George Trotter, aged 27, of Kimberworth, guilty of the murder of Hannah Wilson.  He assaulted her with a knife in the parish of Todwick on 6th July 1756, giving her a wound in the left part of her belly below the navel, of which wound she died on 20th July.