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Topic: Hanged in Duke St Prison (Read 786 times)
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toddy
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One of my relations Patrick Leggett was hanged at Duke St Prison in 1902 for the murder of his wife Sarah Jane . I recently went to the National Archives in Edinburgh and got the case files and also collected all the newspaper articles about the trial at the time. I believe he was buried within the walls of the prison after the execution.
I have been told that when the prison was knocked down in the fifties the bodies buried there where removed elsewhere.
Can anyone confirm this story and also the whereabouts of the re-burial?
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toddy
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Thanks for the info. I tried to email the webmaster but my emails keep getting returned!! I'll try again later. again thanks 
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Skoosh
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Toddy, if you're still there after all this time, I think hanged people's bodies were buried in quicklime, there would be nothing left? the rubble from the prison was dumped at Frankfield Loch making up what's now Strathclyde Uni's playing fields, Millirston...Skoosh.
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ricky1
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Hi
Dont believe everything you see on Silent Witness, there are plenty of sites on the net saying prisoners when buried were covered in quicklime so they would disintegrate quickly
ricky
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Harby,Garton,Drury,Duncombe,Booth,Catton,Barker, Kirkby, Wilson. Lincolnshire, Also Murkin's, Jeffery,Pettitt,Carter, from Suffolk/Cambridgeshire boarder Census information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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ricky1
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Hi Hibee
It also says on that site
I would think quicklime would actiually help preserve a body. It seems to me that it would suck water out of the body, then slowly absorb carbon dioxide from the air to a crust of calcium carbonate.
Thing is when your buried 6 feet deep, you dont get a lot of air
Also on the site
A more famous murder: http://www.familytrail.com/crippen/DrCrippen2.html The remains had not rotted away because they were sprinkled with slaked lime, a chemical which preserves flesh. Apparently the killer had intended to douse the remains with quicklime, which destroys flesh, but he had carelessly applied the wrong chemical.
Looks to me the site is saying two different things, one part says it dont destroy the flesh, the next it says's it do's
ricky 
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Harby,Garton,Drury,Duncombe,Booth,Catton,Barker, Kirkby, Wilson. Lincolnshire, Also Murkin's, Jeffery,Pettitt,Carter, from Suffolk/Cambridgeshire boarder Census information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Skoosh
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So Guys, might not the quicklime be to destroy smells & pathogens, in the close, overcrowded confines of a prison, the practise of burying bodies under church floors had been discontinued due to the smell & threat to health (except for embalmed toffs). Have you considered that the bodies might still be undisturbed in one of the green patches inside the Ladywell scheme?....Scoosh.
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toddy
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Thanks to all.
I got an article from one of the newspapers at the time and it said he was buried within the walls of the prison immediatley after the hanging and "his body covered with lime shells"
Toddy
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Buzancy18
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There used to be a children's song about Duke Street Jail which was sung in a collection of kid's songs by Archie Fisher et al in the 60s.
It was a parody on the hymn " There is a happy land, far, far away"
[/i]There is a happy land, down in Duke Street Jail,
Where all the prisoners stand, tied tae a nail,
Ham and eggs they never see,
Dirty water for their tea,there they live in misery,
God save the King
The Glasgow Corporation came, wi a brand new plan,
They're building tenement hooses now, down in the happy land,
There's 16 murderers buried there,
So watch yersel going doon the stair,or a ghost 'll come oot and grab ye by the hair,
God save the King
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Buzancy18
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