British Executions

Edmund Martin

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: stealing

Date Of Execution: 1 Aug 1761

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Gallows Field, Ilchester

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

Edmund Martin guilty of privately stealing 30 yards of woollen cloth (valued at 36/-) in the shop of Anthony Horlers.  I have from somewhere (?) a note saying executed on 11th July (a fortnight before Assizes held).  Executed.