Amazing Scenes Over Hanging of U.S. Soldier
Received Thursday, 11.30 p.m. LONDON, March 8. The American soldier Hulten was hanged at Pentonville prison for the murder of a taxidriver. The death sentence on his companion, the striptease artist, Elizabeth Jones, was commuted to imprisonment for life. Amazing scenes outside Pentonville developed into a demonstration by a crowd of 200 before Hulten was executed. Mrs. Violet Vanderelst, who was the central figure in similar incidents at previous executions as an opponent of capital punishment, attempted to enter the prison. When refused she rebuked the policeman who warned her not to create a disturbance. She declared: “You let off the girl, but hang the man. It is a damn shame! ’ ’ She harangued the crowd in protest against the hanging and then boarded a lorry the driver of which started the engine and tried to drive into the prison. The police stopped another lorry in its path and a collision was narrowly averted. The police rushed Mrs. Vanderelst’s lorry and removed her and the driver Both were led away with the driver struggling Violently and the sightseers milling around the lorry. The man was escorted towards the main gate of the prison.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 58, 9 March 1945, Page 5
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