Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: highway robbery
Date Of Execution: 22 May 1765
Execution Place: Heavitree Gallows
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/devon.html
Wednesday, 22 May 1765 (Exeter Flying Post)
George Nicholls (aged 20) guilty of the highway robbery of William Harry Elford: robbing him of whale bone whip (valued at 12/-), a silk purse (valued at 6d) and £3.4/- in money numbered.
