Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: highway robbery
Date Of Execution: 6 Aug 1774
Execution Place: York
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/yorkcircuit.html
Robert Thomas guilty of the highway robbery of Wiliam Dighton in the parish of Halifax on 9th November 1769: robbing him of 4 gold guineas. His body was hanged in chains on Beacon Hill Halifax.