WOMAN HANGED
In English Gaol
CROWD PROTEST.
(Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON. April 16.
Nurse Wadldingham (convicted of poisoning an elderly woman patient) was executed at Birmingham. The crowd was kept a quarter of a mile from the prison. The demonstrations included a line ot sandwichmen bearing placards “Stop this terrible crime "of hanging a mother with five children.” Mrs Vian Der Elslt brought a loudspeaker 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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Grey River Argus, 18 April 1936, Page 7
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87WOMAN HANGED Grey River Argus, 18 April 1936, Page 7
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