ILFORD MURDER TRIAL.
PROTESTATIONS OF INNOCENCE.
(Per Press Association. Copyright.) LONDON, December 11. In connection with the Ilford murder trial, the jury were absent two hours, and found both prisoners guilty. They were sentenced to death. iVlrs Thompson had to be supported by two wardresses. After sentence had been passed she sobbingly said: “I am not guilty. My God, I am not guilty. She then collapsed. Bywaters, walking steadily to the> front of the dock, and looking defiantly first at the foreman and then at the. Judge, said: “The verdict is wrong. Edith Thompson is - not guilty. I am no, murderer. I am no assassin.” Several women spectators, including; Mrs Thompson’s mother, fainted when they heard the sentence.
EXECUTION OF WOMEN. LONDON, December 11. The newspapers point out that no. woman has been hanged in Britain since Mrs Wills, alias James, a baby-, farmer, was executed at Cardiff in 1907.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIII, Issue 9747, 13 December 1922, Page 4
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