CONSPIRACY TO KILL A HUSBAND.
Letters from Ireland that were opened by the postal censor led to the conviction at Stafford Assizes of Alexander Felan and Porothy Henshaw, for conspiring together to murder the woman's husband. Pelan was sentenced to 15 months' bard labour and the woman to nine months' hard labour. Pelan had lodged with the Henshaws at Bilston, and when the incriminating letters Were written Was working in Belfast. , In one letter to Pelan, Mrs. Henshaw wrote: "I am frightened to venture it, as he is not Worth chancing my life for . . but I would really like to be married on Whit-Sunday or August Sunday." Pelan wrote back to her:— "He Is torture to us both. You renewed your promise to be my. wife this year. . . Give him no chance. "'Use iaudarxu'm, laundry bleach, or gas." The jury acquitted Mra. Henshaw of administering poison.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 192, 15 August 1925, Page 18
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