Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: highway robbery
Date Of Execution: 5 Apr 1784
Execution Place: Chelmsford
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/essex.html
Monday, 5 April 1784
John Carney, aged 22, found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of Nehemiah Sorrell in the parish of West Ham on 19th October 1783: robbing him of 21 half pennies. He was ordered to be hanged on 18 March.
