Age:
Sex: male
Crime: Highway robbery
Date Of Execution: 11 Aug 1781
Crime Location:
Execution Place: Reading
Method: hannging
Executioner: unknown
Source:
http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/berks.html
Summer 1781 (Reading Mercury for 13 and 20 August not seen - missing) John Lightfoot, William Matthews and John Keeling indicted for the highway robbery of William Moor in the parish of Hurst on 31st March 1781: robbing him of a coat (valued at 2/-), a hat (valued at 1/-) and a watch (valued at 40/-).
