Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: highway robbery
Date Of Execution: 24 Jan 1787
Execution Place: Exeter
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/devon.html
Wednesday, 24 January 1787 at Magdalen Road Gallows, Exeter. (Exeter Flying Post)
William Fitzgerald (aged 23) guilty of the highway robbery of James Richards in Fore Street between 1 and 2 in the morning of 28th November 1786: robbing him of a linen handkerchief and 6/-.