Alexander Hobbs

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: highway robbery

Date Of Execution: 20 Mar 1799

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Gallows Hill, Ware Road, Hertford

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

Wednesday, 20 March 1799 at Hunsdon (Carrington Diary)

Alexander Hobbs (otherwise Joe the Hatter), aged 22, found guilty of the highway robbery of James Hill on 28^th April 1798 in the parish of Chipping Barnet: robbing him of 6 sliver shillings.