British Executions

Jacob Cranfield

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: highway robbery

Date Of Execution: 31 Mar 1758

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Chelmsford

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

Friday, 31 March 1758  (Kentish Post)

Jacob Cranfield found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of John Card in the parish of Elmstead on 1st October 1757: robbing him of 8/- in money numbered,