WOMAN OF SORROWS.
TRAGIC MARRIAGE RECORD. London, Nov. 2. Mrs Ethel Sims, the young wife of a Nottinghamshire miner might claim the most tragic marriage record of any woman in England. Her first and second husbands were killqd in the war. the third was fatally injured in. a colliery accident and the fourth. Arthur, Sims, aged 24. was sentenced to death for the murder of his wife’s nine-year-old sister, who was found strangled by a bootlace under a hedge. There was no motive for the crime, as Sims and the child were devoted to each other. The jury rejected a plea that Sims’s mind was unbalanced owing to hardship and cruelty endured in a German prison camp.—-(4-,.,.and N-Z,).
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 278, 4 November 1924, Page 5
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118WOMAN OF SORROWS. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 278, 4 November 1924, Page 5
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