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Broadside entitled 'Public Executions'

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Public Executions.

Names of all the persons who have Suffered in Glasgow since the
year 1765, with an account of their crimes, and the year and day
of the month they were Executed, and exhibits a melancholy
view of the final end of all who deviate from the paths of' rectitude.

Hugh Bisland, robbery,                                                            1765, July 10.
Agnes Dongal, murder,                                                              1767, Nov. 4.
Andrew Marshall, murder,             ,                                            1769, Oct. 25.
William Mitchell and Christopher Jordan, robbery,                     1773, Nov. 17.
George M'Taggart, theft,                                                           1775, June 21.
Robert Hislop, housebreakirig,                                                   1781, June 6.
James Jacks, robbery,                                                                 1784, July 7.
Jas. Brodie, Win. Brodie, and Jean Lindsay, housebreaking,         1784, Nov.3.
Neil M'Lean, forgery,                                                               1785, June   1. .
David Steven, murder,                                                               1785, June 3.
Thomas Vernon, robbery,                                                           1785, Nov. 9.
James Spence, housebreaking,                                                   1786, June 7.
Elizabeth Paul, housesbreaking,                                                   1786, Oct. 25.
John M'Aulny, Thos. Veitch and Thomas Gentles, robbery,         1787, May 23.
Walter M'lntosh, robbery,                                                         1788, Oct. '22.
William Scott, housebreaking,                                                   1788, Dec. 3.
John Brown, forgery,                                                                 1790, June   9
James Day, murder,                                                                  1790, Oct. 20.
James Plunkett, robbery,                                                           1792, Jan. 11.
James Dick, murder,                                                                 1792, May 16.
Mort Collins, murder,                                                               1792, Nov. 7.
Agnes White and James M'Kenzie, murder and robbery,              1798, May 22
James M'Kean, murder,                                                            1797, Jan. 25.
John M'Millan, murder,                                                            1798, May 16.
Peter Gray, hamesucken,                                                           1800, May 28.
William Cunningham, theft,                                                      1803, JUne 8.
David Scott and Hugh Adamson, forgery,                                   1805, June 5.
Adam Cox, murder,                                                                  1807, June 10.
James Gilchrist, murder,                                                            1808, July 20.
John Gordon M'Intosh and George Stewart, housebreaking,         1809, Nov.   8.
James Ferguson, robbery,                                                         1813, May 9.6.
William Muir and William Mudie, robbery,                                        1813, Nov. 17.
William Higgins and Thomas Harrold, robbery,                                1814, Oct. 19.
John Sherry, robbery,                                                               1815, Nov.   1.
William M'Kay, forgery,                                                           1817, May 28.
Freebairn Whitehill, robbery, and William M'Kechnie and
James M Cormick, housebreaking,                                               1817, Oct. 29.
William Baird and Walter Elair, robbery,                                    1818, June 3.
Mtw. Clydesdale, murder, and Simon Ross, house breaking.         1819, April 7.
Alexander Robertson [   ]
Robert M'Kinlay, Hunter Guthrie, John Forbes and Wil-
liam Buchanan, housebreaking,                                                    1819. Nov. 3.
John Buchanan, murder,                                                            1819. Nov. 17.
Richard Smith, housebreaking,                                                  1820, May 31.
James Wilson, treason,                                                              1820, Aug. 30-
Daniel Grant,   Peter Crosbie, John Connar and Thomas
M'Colgan, housebreaking and robbery,                                        1820, Nov.   8.
William Leonard Swan, forgery,                                                1881, June 5.
M. Macintyre, Wm. Paterson and J. Dyer, housefareaking,         1821, Oct..24.
William Campbell, housebreaking,                                             1882,   May. 29
Thomas Donnachy, housebreaking,                                               1832, June 5.
                                        W. Carse, Printer, Glasgow.   

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Date of publication: 1822   shelfmark: L.C.Fol.73(043)
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