Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: highway robbery
Date Of Execution: 3 Apr 1773
Execution Place: Staffordshire
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/staffs.html
John Wilkes (otherwise Jack Stitch) guilty of the highway robbery of Richard Bellison in the parish of Wednesbury on 7th August 1772: robbing him of a watch with pinchbeck cases (valued at £4), a linen handkerchief (valued at 2d) and 1/2 in money numbered.
