Pasha Liffey

Pasha Liffey was convicted of the murder of Mary Jane Welsh 63 and sentenced to death.

He ravished her and cut her throat on Dykehead Road, Larkhall, Lanarkshire on 11 August 1905.

Late on the night of 11 August 1905 a miner was walking along the road when he saw a negro near a woman who was lying motionless on the ground. The miner approached and said that the negro brandished a knife at him and threatened him if he came closer. However, the miner went nearer and the negro threw the knife away and fled. When the miner looked closer he saw that the woman had been stabbed in the neck.

He said that she was dead and from the appearance of her body there was no doubt that she had been outraged.