The History of Leith

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February 18, 2006

The trials and sentences of William Mitchel and Samuel Tucker

An account of the Trial and Sentence of William Mitchel, for Theft and Forgery, who is to be executed at the west end of the Tolbooth of Edinburgh, on Wednesday the 9th of October next.—Also, an account of the Trial and Execution of Samuel Tucker, for the Murder of his Wife, which atrocious crime he perpetrated by starving her to death, and for which he suffered at Salisbury, on Friday the 2d of August, 1811, and his body was given for diffection; for more click here

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