Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 14 Sep 1739
Execution Place: unknown
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/northumbria.html
Friday, 14 September 1739, Town Moor, Newcastle (Newcastle Journal)
William Smith guilty of the murder of his wife, Rachel, beating and bruising her with his hands, feet and knees and then strangling her with a handkerchief about her neck, in the city of Newcastle, on 26 September 1738.
