British Executions

Mary Ann Martin

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 23 Mar 1799

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Heavitree Gallows

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

Saturday, 23 March 1799 County Gaol, Exeter (Exeter Flying Post)

Mary Ann Martin guilty of the murder of Margaret Palmer.  She was originally ordered for execution on Friday, 22 March but this was respited till the Saturday. There are no indictments in existence for the Western Circuit before 1801.  Possibly some information in the Exeter Flying Post at Collindale newspaper library.