SCENE AT EXECUTION

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12532, 18 April 1935, Page 5

SCENE AT EXECUTION

FURTHER DEMONSTRATI ON WOMAN HAS ANOTHER CLASH WITH POLICE. (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright.) LONDON, April 16. There* r»va« a repetition hi the scenes witnessed outside Wandswoma prison on April 2 at the execution of the 21 year-old Percy Anderson for murdering hl s street-heart on the Brighton links on Monday 25, hut no aeroplanes flew overhead owing to :ain. Airs Van dor Elst was again in eon fliet with the police, who are summoning her fur dangerous driving without a license, breaking down a cordon, and knocking down a policeman. There were amazing scenes outside Wandsworth prison. where Stoker Petty Officer L. A. Brigstock. fired 33, of the cruiser Arethusa was executed on April 2. for the. murder o t Chief Petty Officer .Soult, at Chatham on January 19, by cutting' his throat. Airs Van dc-r Elst. a wealthy business woman, who is conducting a campaign against capital punEhmont tried in vain to obtain a reprieve. An hour and a half before the time fixed for the execution motor vans plastered with protests and fitted with loud-speakers wore driven aiong the road outside the prison playing the record “Abide With Ale.” Fifty sshid.wichnien also paraded distributing pamphlets. Then the roar of aeroplanes was heard and three machines circled slowly above the prison, each carrying a long streamer bearing the words; “Stop the Death Sentence.” The leader of the campaign. Airs Van der Fist, married Air. Henry Lathon, a. wealthy New Zealand racing man. who settled in England and died in 1925. AI re Van dor Elst later married a Belgian.