British Executions

Mary Nicholson

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 22 Jul 1799

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Durham

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/durhamcircuit.html

Monday, 22 July 1799 (Newcastle Advertiser)

Mary Nicholson guilty of the murder of Elizabeth Atkinson, by giving her white arsenic in a pudding meal, in Little Staynton in the parish of Bishopton on 14th April 1798, so that she died on 30th April.