WOMAN POISONER
EFFORT TO SAVE MRS MAJOR FROM GALLOWS APPEAL TO THEIR MAJESTIES Dress Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, December 18. Dramatic eleventh-hour efforts are being made to save Mrs Ethel Major, who is to be executed at Hull to-mor-row for poisoning her husband with strvehnine. She will be the first woman to ‘be executed in Britain since 1926. Alderman Stark (Lord Mayor) and many prominent local people, after Sir John Gilmour’s rejection of an application for a reprieve following the Criminal Appeal Court’s dismissal of an appeal, telegraphed to their Majesties declaring that the impending execution greatly distressed thousands of women. . Mrs Major, who is forty : two, is a grandmother. She was convicted after an anonymous letter writer suggested to the police that the husband had been poisoned. Mrs Major, in her evidence at the trial, said her husband had repeatedly threatened her. She admitted jealousy of his attentions to a neighbour’s wife, but protested her innocence. Their Majesties’ private secretary transmitted the Lord Mayor’s telegram to the Home Secretary. The execution is fixed for 9 a.m. SENTENCE CARRIED OUT. LONDON, December 19. Mrs Major was hanged.
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Evening Star, Issue 21908, 20 December 1934, Page 9
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186WOMAN POISONER Evening Star, Issue 21908, 20 December 1934, Page 9
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