Age: 38
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 2 Oct 1913
Crime Location: Hopetoun Quarry, Abercorn, West Lothian
Execution Place: Calton Gaol, Edinburgh
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
Patrick Higgins was convicted of the murder of his two sons William Higgins 6 and John Higgins 4 and sentenced to death.
He drowned them at Hopetoun Quarry, Abercorn in West Lothian on 25 October 1911.
see National Records of Scotland - AD15/13/43
see Grantham Journal - Saturday 04 October 1913, p8
see The Scotsman
see Murderpedia
see Daily Record
see Criminal Letters
see Homicide 1913
