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:
- John Young, December 1801
- George Watson, June 1811
- John Worthington, February 1815
- Margaret Crossan, October 1817
- François Gautiez & Peter Heaman, January 1822
- Malcolm Gillespie, November 1827
- David Little, January 1831
- Hugh Macleod, October 1831
- Samuel Waugh, January 1832
- Allan Mair, October 1843
- James McWheelan, October 1848
- James Robb, October 1849
- William Bennison, August 1850
- Helen Blackwood & Hans Macfarlane, August 1853
- Mary Timney, April 1862
- John Reilly, May 1864
- Edward Pritchard, July 1865
- Andrew Brown, January 1866
- William McDonald, October 1878
- Jessie King, March 1889
- William Bury, April 1889
- William McKeown, January 1893
- John Herdman, March 1898