Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: unknown
Date Of Execution: 21 Apr 1777
Execution Place: unknown
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/denbigh.html
Monday, 21 April 1777
John Thomas (otherwise John Jeffrey) in the parish of Gresford on 1 December 1776 assaulted Charles Ellis in a field by the highway, putting him in fear and stealing from him a silver watch (value £3); 1 guinea and a half guinea (WALES 4/58/7). He was ordered to be hanged on Monday 21 April and his body afterwards hanged in chains at Rosset Green near Marford Mill (Shrewsbury Chronicle Saturday 12 April). According to Quarter Session papers he was dieted for two weeks from the Easter Session, held 8 April, which would tie in with this date. According to "Haunted Clwyd" by Richard Holland the gibbet was pulled down and the remains of the body buried on the green: some of the wood of the gibbet was used in the structure of the Golden Lion pub..
