Archive for Stealing

21 January 1801 – John Fisher

Posted in Hanged with tags , , , on January 21 by Old Sparky

Sweet-toothed felon John Fisher paid the highest price possible for the sake of stealing some sugar.

Fisher, 23, was hanged at Newgate for stealing 800lbs of sugar from London’s Dundee Wharf in 1801.

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