Mar. 30, 1829 April 5, 1830 Aug. 2, 1830 Oct. 5, 1831 Oct. 18, 1832 Mar. 30, 1833 Leonard Wilkinson Mathew Harrison Murder. Son and father-convicted of murdering the latter's brother. Horse-stealing. They were the last who suffered capitally for this offence. Child-murder. Murder. Child-murder. Convicted of highway robberyboth at the age of nineteen. Rape. Convicted of inciting Hannah Gray, a simple girl, to fire her master's hay-stacks. It appears that her husband had the care of the Pinfold or Pound at Lotherton. Some of Mr. Marshall's foals having been impounded there, she demanded a payment of fourpence on delivering them to him. This was refused; and she vowed vengeance against him, even if she were hanged for it on the following day. She then persuaded the girl Gray to commit the offence described by the promise of a new frock: this the girl gave in evidence. Highway robbery. Arson. Highway robbery and attempt at murder. Rape. Murder. Attempt to murder. Joseph Heerley Murder. Ursula Lofthouse Charles Batty' Thos. Williams Thos. Musgrave Jas. Bradsley Murder of her husband. Attempt to murder. Rape. Patricide. He was the last person put to death by the hangman and ex-convict, John Currey, who had performed this most miserable duty since 1802. DATE. OFFENDER. OFFENCE-OR NOTE OF IMPORTANCE. John Riley Aug. 6, 1859 Dec. 31, 1859 Wife-murder. Convicted, at the age of seventeen, and the height of 4ft., 83in., of the murder of a gentleman, aged sixty seven. A poacher, convicted of the murder of a gamekeeper. Murder of a fellow-prisoner. Murder of his sister. The offender Murder, from spite-passion. UNWIN BROTHERS, THE GRESHAM PRESS, CHILWORTH AND LONDON. 250-6-83-S. |