Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 9 Aug 1787
Execution Place: Moor Heath/Old Heath, Shrewsbury
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/salop.html
John Phthean, aged 36, guilty of the murder of his wife Sarah, by beating and kicking her, in the parish of Whitchurch on 6th April 1787, so that she died on 7th April.