ILFORD MURDERERS
EXECUTED YESTERDAY BY TBLX3EAFH. —PBXSS ASSOCIATION —COPYBIGHT. (Rec. January 9, 7.50 p.m.) London, January 9. Mr. W. C. Bridgman (Home Secretary) has refused to postpone the execution of Mrs. Thompson.
The Bishop of Stepney visited Mrs. Thompson and convoyed a message from Bywaters that a cruel hoax had been perpetrated. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
(Rec. January 9, 10.30 p.m.)
London, January 9. Ily waters and Mrs. Thomnson have been executed. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [Bywaters, a 20-year-old ship’s steward, and Edith Thompson were tried as a result of tho death of PercyThompson. It was alleged that attempts wore made to poison Percy Thompson, who refused to divorce his wife to enable Bywaters to marry her. but the actual killing was dono in a street at Ilford, when, one evening, Bywaters met the woman and her husband. Thompson was stabbed in the back, and in the back of the neck, and it was apparently this fact which made tho jury refuse to believe Bywaters’* story of acting in self-defence. The woman was implicated by letters she had written to Bywaters. Since the passing of the sentence the old controversy as to the hangim- of women has lieen revived. Mrs. Thompson wa» the first woman hanged in Great Britain since 1907.1
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 88, 10 January 1923, Page 5
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