Age: 23
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 29 Mar 1837
Execution Place: unknown
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/1837.html
Thomas Bates murdered James Giltro who he killed on 29 August 1836.
James Giltro was a gamekeeper to Colonel Hammer at Soulbury. He later confessed to the murder in front of his wife and another man.
He killed him in the village of Heath and Reach near Leighton Buzzard. he was found dead at the side of Bragenham Warren. At first it was thought he had committed suicide after having killed another man whilst rabbit hunting the previous autum but that was soon ruled out after his mangled body was seen.
He had been beaten so much that even his closest friends found it hard to recognise him.
