Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: highway robbery
Date Of Execution: 23 Mar 1799
Execution Place: Chelmsford
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/essex.html
Saturday, 23 March 1799
James Thompson, aged 28, and James Meyrick, aged 24, found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of Thomas Augustuis Jessop in the parish of Wanstead on 16th July 1798: robbing him of a pocket book (valued at 1/-), a gold half guinea, one silver shilling and 4 silver sixpences.
