British Executions

Blackmore Bill

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: highway robbery

Date Of Execution: 1 Apr 1740

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Staffordshire

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

Blackmore Bill guilty of the highway robbery of John Dearne in the parish of Forton on 9th October 1736: robbing him of 50/- in money numbered.  No reprieve traced.