In the Grange Cemetery

Jane Taylor died when visiting her daughter and son-in-law who lived in Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow.     Dr Edward Pritchard, the s-i-l, was so badly affected that when the funeral took place back in Edinburgh in the Grange, he wept and wailed and tried to throw himself into the grave after her.  

When his wife, Mary, less than a month later followed her mother to this grave, suspicions were fuelled.    So they were both dug up again, and found to have antimony in their bodies, enough to kill them.

Dr Pritchard’s own life came to an end on 28 July 1865 when he was hanged by public executioner William Calcraft. The execution took place outside Glasgow North Prison on Glasgow Green, the last public execution in Scotland, and was said to have been attended by 100,000 onlookers.