Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 15 Aug 1753
Execution Place: York
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/yorkcircuit.html
William Smith, of Great Broughton, guilty of the murder of Thomas Harper, William Harper (his son) and Ann Harper (his daughter or daughter-in-law) in the parish of Ingleby Greenhow on 20th April 1753. They died after eating a cake in which arsenic had been mixed.
