Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: highway robbery
Date Of Execution: 8 Aug 1795
Execution Place: Sussex
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/sussex.html
William Midwinter, aged 27, found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of Alexander Trotter in the parish of Mooching (otherwise Newhaven) on 17th April 1795: robbing him of 50 hempen sacks (valued at £5) and 200 bushels of wheaten flour (valued at £80) belonging to Alexander Trotter and the same quantities (and values) belonging to Thomas Barton and Edmund Catt. He was originally detained on a charge of assembling with others riotously and tumultuously and stealing 100 bushels of wheaten flour from a mill and granary.
