Age:
Sex: male
Crime: Sacrilege
Date Of Execution: 16 Apr 1757
Crime Location:
Execution Place: Reading
Method: hannging
Executioner: unknown
Source:
http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/berks.html
Saturday, 16 April 1757 (Reading Mercury) William Short indicted for sacrilege: stealing a velvet table cloth (valued at ?5) and a velvet valence (valued at ?3), the property of the parishioners, in the parish church of St Lawrence, Reading on 4th September 1756.
