British Executions

Edward Perry

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: return from transportation

Date Of Execution: 16 Apr 1743

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Staffordshire

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

Edward Perry guilty of being found at large in the Kingdom having been tried at the Staffordshire Assizes on 5th August 1740 for stealing a black gelding (valued at 40/-) in the parish of Wolverhampton on 9th September 1739; sentenced to death but reprieved on 11th February 1741.