WOMAN HANGED.
Nurse Charged With Double Murder. DEMONSTRATIONS OF PROTEST (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 16. Dorothea Nancy Waddingham, aged 34, an unregistered nurse who was sentenced to death at Nottingham Assizes on February 27, with a recommendation to mercy, for the murder of an elderly cripple woman who had bequeathed her £1500, was executed to-day in Birmingham.
A crowd was kept a quarter of a mile from the prison. Demonstrations included a line of sandwichmen bearing plackards: "Stop this terrible crime of hanging the mother of five children!"
The wealthy Mrs. van der Elst, antideath penalty campaigner, brought a loudspeaker on a van, playing hymns. She protested against the execution, but her endeavour to commission six aeroplanes to fly over the prison failed.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 91, 17 April 1936, Page 7
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