British Executions

Cooper Hall

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: robbery

Date Of Execution: 27 Mar 1782

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Nottinghamshire

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

Wednesday, 27 March 1782 (Leicester and Nottingham Journal)       

Cooper Hall (aged  30) for a mail robbery:  robbing the Newcastle Mail on 18th November 1781 6 miles north of Newark and stealing therefrom.  His body was ordered to be hanhed in chains on Jearling Moor.