A letter to the Right Honourable the Lord Advocate, on the execution of Robert Johnston, December 30, 1818
Series: Making of modern law
Publisher: Printed by George Ramsay & Co., and sold by Archibald Constable and Company
Published: 1818
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 44
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Hanging; Trials (Murder); Trials (Robbery)
Notes: Signed: Vindex, i.e., William Garson.

Johnston, convicted of armed robbery, was hanged on December 30, 1818. The first attempt at execution failed; he died two hours after a second attempt.

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First work in a volume of four on the execution of Robert Johnston.

With this are bound: 1) Letter to the citizens of Edinburgh, in which the cruel and malicious aspersions of an "eye-witness" are answered and the conduct of the magistrates is placed in its true light / by Civis. Edinburgh : Printed for A. Guthrie, 1819. -- 2) Letter to the magistrates of Edinburgh, on the execution of Robert Johnston / by an Eye witness. Edinburgh : Printed for the booksellers by Thomas Trunbull, 1819. -- 3) An address to the inhabitants of Edinburgh, on the outrages committed on the 30th December, and the statements in various publications regarding the conduct of the civil power / by Amicus Veritatis. Edinburgh : Printed by Michael Anderson, 1819.