Age: 52
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 12 Mar 1898
Execution Place: unknown
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://greggmanning.scstamps.co.uk/Murder1/doch.htm
1898
March 12th: John HERDMAN (52)
Edinburgh
A printer convicted of the murder of Jane Calder, his paramour, whom he killed during a drunken quarrel at Hogmanay. The police surgeon stated that death was caused by a severe kicking and several stab wounds. The doctor claimed that the bruises were the worst he had ever seen. Herdman was sentenced to death at Edinburgh High Court and a petition of 11,000 signatures failed to stop the sentence being carried out by James Billington.