Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: burglary
Date Of Execution: 7 Nov 1767
Execution Place: Carmarthenshire
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/camarth.html
Saturday, 7 November 1767
Edward Higgins (of the parish of Winterbourne, Gloucestershire) on 26 June 1767 at about 12 o'clock at night in the parish of Laugharne burglariously entered the dwelling house of Dane Elizabeth Maude and stole a book entitled "Universal Pocket Book" (value 5/6) (WALES 4/738/6).
He was hanged at Pensarn on Saturday 7 November. In (C&iN) and (Gloucester Journal, Monday, 16th November)