British Executions

James Brookes

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: highway robbery

Date Of Execution: 19 Mar 1737

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Gallows Hill, Winchester

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

James Brookes guilty of the highway robbery of William Binstead: robbing him of goods and money valued at £8.5.6½.  No reprieve traced.  No longer in gaol at time of Summer Assizes.  No indication of execution.