Hanged Until Dead: Men and Women Executed in Nineteenth-Century Scotland

John Kellie

978 1 911043 06 5

£12.00

Paperback, 280 pages

 

During the course of the nineteenth century, well over two hundred Scots ended their lives on the gallows, convicted of offences ranging from murder at one extreme to simple theft at the other. This book tells the stories of twenty-five such men and women - their characters, their crimes and the consequences.

 

Chapters:

  1. John Young, December 1801
  2. George Watson, June 1811
  3. John Worthington, February 1815
  4. Margaret Crossan, October 1817
  5. François Gautiez & Peter Heaman, January 1822
  6. Malcolm Gillespie, November 1827
  7. David Little, January 1831
  8. Hugh Macleod, October 1831
  9. Samuel Waugh, January 1832
  10. Allan Mair, October 1843
  11. James McWheelan, October 1848
  12. James Robb, October 1849
  13. William Bennison, August 1850
  14. Helen Blackwood & Hans Macfarlane, August 1853
  15. Mary Timney, April 1862
  16. John Reilly, May 1864
  17. Edward Pritchard, July 1865
  18. Andrew Brown, January 1866
  19. William McDonald, October 1878
  20. Jessie King, March 1889
  21. William Bury, April 1889
  22. William McKeown, January 1893 
  23. John Herdman, March 1898