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EXECUTIONS, &c.
THE following authentic List of Criminals who have been Executed at Glasgow, are taken from Cleland's Annals of Glasgow, and other official records. The particulars of the other Criminals are extracted from Arnot’s Criminal Trials, and must prove highly interesting to every intelligent Reader.
| Executed at the Howgatehead, where the Monkland Canal Basin is. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of Execution. | |||
| Hugh Bilsland, robbery | 1765, | July | 10 |
| Agnes Dougal, murder | 1767, | Nov. | 4 |
| Andrew Marshall,. murder. (He was hung in chains) | 1769, | Oct. | 25 |
| Wm. Mitchell and Christopher Jordan, robbery | 1773, | Nov. | 17 |
| George McTaggart, housebreaking and theft | 1775, | June | 21 |
| Robert Hislop, housebreaking and theft | 1781, | June | 6 |
| Executed in the Castle-yard, where the Infirmary now stands. | |||
| James Jacks, robbery | 1784, | July | 7 |
| Jas. and Wm. Brodie, and Jean Lindsay, house-breaking. | 1784, | Nov. | 3 |
