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WOMAN SUFFERS PENALTY SEQUEL TO POISONING CASE NEW YORK, July 17 Mrs. Mary Crcighton, aged 38, housewife, and Everett Appelgate, aged 36, a former American Legion official, were electrocuted in Sing Sing prison on Wednesday evening for poisoning Appelgate's wife, Ada, on September 27, 1935. Fear induced paralysis in the case of Mrs. Crcighton, who had to be wheeled to the electric chair.
Appelgate and Mrs. Crcighton were found guilty of murder on January 20, of this year. Mrs. Appelgate had been killed by arsenic poisoning which Mrs. Crcighton confessed having administered. She became ill on September 19, 193"), and was removed to hospital, but on showing an improvement in condition she was allowed to return home. Slie again became ill, however, and died on September 27. An autopsy showed the presence of arsenic. Mrs. Crcighton had been tried and acouitted on two previous occasions on charges of poisoning.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22475, 20 July 1936, Page 9
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