Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: highway robbery
Date Of Execution: 28 Mar 1793
Execution Place: Heavitree Gallows
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/devon.html
Thursday, 28 March 1793 at Halldown (Exeter Flying Post)
Francis Martin (aged 30) guilty of the highway robbery of the post boy (a mail robbery). After execution his body was hanged in chains on the brow of Halldown looking towards Chudleigh.
