Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 8 Aug 1757
Execution Place: Durham
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/durhamcircuit.html
Monday, 8 August 1757 (Newcastle Journal)
William Heugh guilty of the murder of the female bastard of Mary Heugh, spinster, to whom she gave birth in the parish of Staindrop on 19th April 1747. He is charged in the indictment with aiding and abetting her to choke and strangle the child.
