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.
On 13 September 1902 Sarah Leggett went to Partick with her cousin and her baby. When they got back at 6pm they went into the house where the cousin was knocked unconscious by Patrick Leggett who had been hiding there and who then stabbed Sarah Leggett, cutting her throat.
They had screamed and alerted the neighbours who saw Patrick Leggett run off.
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
