British Executions

John Wotton

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: highway robbery

Date Of Execution: 5 Sep 1783

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Gallows Field, Ilchester

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

John Wotton and Samuel Wotton guilty of the highway robbery of Ann Curtis, widow: stealing therefrom 17 yards of woollen cloth (valued at 34/-) and other goods (valued at 30/-).