Age:
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 2 Aug 1875
Execution Place: Durham
Method: unknown
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20070624062456/http://www.fred.net/jefalvey/execute.h
Twenty two year old Michael Gillingham was a respectable young man who was sentenced to death at Durham Assizes by Baron Huddlestone, for the murder of John Kiegoam, a young Irishman. Without any provocation, Kiegoam was set upon by a gang of six youths at Darlington on 10 April, and witnesses testified they saw Gillingham strike the man about the head with a sharp instrument, which punctured his brain over the eyebrow. The execution was carried out in Durham on the 2 August 1875.
