Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 2 Aug 1786
Execution Place: Huntingdonshire
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/hunting.html
Wednesday, 2 August 1786 (Cambridge Chronicle)
Jervase Matcham guilty of the murder of Benjamin Jones, by cutting his throat at Alconbury in 1780. His body was afterwards hanged in chains near the murder spot at Alconbury.
