British Executions

Hopkin Owen

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: horse stealing

Date Of Execution: 13 Sep 1786

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Glamorganshire

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

Wednesday, 13 September 1786 Stalling Down, Cowbridge

Hopkin Owen (otherwise Bowen) (aged 22) for the theft of a horse: the property of William Jenkins on 1st August 1786 in the parish of Llangyfeloch.  Hanged on 1 September at Stalling Down, Cowbridge (Diary of William Thomas)