British Executions

Richard Roberts

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: highway robbery

Date Of Execution: 1 Apr 1769

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Moor Heath/Old Heath, Shrewsbury

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

Richard Roberts guilty of the highway robbery of Matthew Davies in the parish of St Chad, Shrewsbury on 22nd August 1768: robbing him of £12.12/- in money numbered.