Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 26 Aug 1783
Execution Place: Surrey
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/surrey.html
Martha Baker, aged 24, and Henry Symonds, aged 39, found guilty on an indictment for the murder of Elisha Cook by throwing him from a second storey window of a house in King Street in the parish of St George the Martyr, Southwark on 1st July 1783 as a result of which he died on 4th August 1783. They were ordered for execution on Monday 25th but were respited until e following day.
