Matthew Snatt

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: highway robbery

Date Of Execution: 12 Aug 1757

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Chelmsford

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

Friday, 12 August 1757 (Kentish Post)

Matthew Snatt found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of Abraham Debart in the parish of Low Leyton on 16^th March 1757: robbing him of a leathern mail (valued at 20/-) and 5 leather bags (valued at 5/-), the property of the King. Afterwards hanged in chains W W.