British Executions

Patrick Leggett

Age: 30

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 12 Nov 1902

Crime Location: 93 Wylies Back Land, Whiteinch, Glasgow

Execution Place: Duke Street, Glasgow

Method: hanging

Executioner: William Billington

Source: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000453/19021112/060/0004

Patrick Leggett was convicted of the murder of Sarah Jane Leggett 27 and sentenced to death.

They had been married but Patrick Leggett became suspicious that Sarah Leggett had been seeing someone else and had rowed about it and eventually Sarah Leggett left Patrick Leggett and went to stay with her brother at 93 Wylies Back Land, Whiteinch.

see The Encyclopedia of Executions by John J Eddleston

see National Records of Scotland - AD15/02/89

see Bromsgrove & Droitwich Messenger - Saturday 15 November 1902

see Homicide 1902