Joseph Brown

Age:

Sex: male

Crime: Highway robbery

Date Of Execution: 5 May 1804

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Lancaster Castle

Method: hanging

Executioner:

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/1800.html

Lancashire

Saturday, 5 May 1804 (Lancaster Gazette)

Joseph Brown of Manchester, guilty of the highway robbery of Joseph Jones in the parisah of Prestwich on 15^th November 1803: robbing him of a purse (valued at 2d), 3 gold guineas, 20/- in money numbered, 12 copper half-pennies, 12 copper pennies and a penknife (valued at 3d).