WOMAN HANGED IN CANADA.
FIRST FOR 24 YEARS. A BOOTLEGGING FEUD. (Received 10.no n.m.7 VANCOUVER, May 2. At Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Emilio Pk-ariello and Mrs. Florence Lassandro were hanged together for the murder of Constable Coleman, who was shot as the outcome of the bootlegging feud. Mrs. L/assandro was the first woman executed in Canada for 24 years.— (A. and N.Z.) The condemned woman went to the scaffold calmly. She confessed to tiring a shot at the' constable.— (A. and X.Z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 104, 3 May 1923, Page 5
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