Newgate calendar, Footpads robbing a journeyman tailor near harrow, 18th Cnetury crime - stock illustration

Vintage illustration of a scene from the Newgate calendar. John Hartley and Thomas Reeves, Footpads, who were executed at Tyburn on the 4th of May, 1722. Hartley and Reeves robbing a journeyman tailor near harrow. Indicted at the Old Bailey for stopping a journeyman tailor in the fields near Harrow and robbing him of twopence and his clothes, and because he had no more money they stripped and beat him most inhumanly, and bound him to a tree.