Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: rioting
Date Of Execution: 15 Jan 1831
Crime Location: Wincester
Execution Place: unknown
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001476/18301231/050/0004
James Thomas Cooper was convicted of breaking machinery during the Winchester riots as well as in other parts of the country.
James Thoms Cooper was executed with Henry Cook. After their bodies were removed from the scaffold, there were written in large letters behind it, 'Murder for murder, and blood for blood'.
see Chester Chronicle - Friday 21 January 1831
see London Courier and Evening Gazette - Friday 31 December 1830