APPEALS DISMISSED

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 150, 22 December 1922, Page 7

APPEALS DISMISSED

- THE ILFORD MURDERERS ' (UNITED' MESS ASSOCIATION.—COPSNOHt.) (AUSTItAMAH-MBW ZEALAND CABM ASBOCMTIOH,) , (Received 22nd December, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 21st December. The appeals of Edith Thompson, and the youth Bywaters against the death "sentences passed, on them for conspiring to murder the woman's husband have been dismissed. i Bywaters, a 20-year-old ship's steward, and Edith Thompson were tried as. a result o.f the death" of Percy Thompson. , The case created most unusual interest in London, and great .queues formed overnight at the ?ld Bailey, bo eager .were people to hear the evidence. It was alleged that attempts were made to poison Percy Thompson, who refused to diyorce his wife to enable Bywaters to, marry her, but the actual killing was done in a street at Tlfprd, 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 the jury refuse to believe Bywater's storj of acting in self-defence The woman was implicated by letters she had^writter to Bywaters. Since the passing "of the sentence the old controversy as to the hanging of. women has.been revived. No woman has been banged in Great Britain since 1907.