Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: stealing
Date Of Execution: 8 Sep 1798
Execution Place: Lancaster Moor
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/lanc1735.html
Saturday, 8 September 1798 (Chester Courant)
John Eccles, of Wigan, guilty of stealing 20 pieces of calico (valued at £10), the property of Charles Goldney Rees, Philip Lewis Rees, Thomas Cochran and Robert Clough from their bleachcroft at Adlington in the parish of Standish on 11th February 1799.