William Bedford

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: stealing sheep

Date Of Execution: 4 Sep 1742

Crime Location:

Execution Place: York

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

William Bedford (otherwise Blackdike) guilty of stealing a brown cow (valued at £4), the property of James Scott, in the parish of Halifax on 9^th July 1742.