ILFORD EXECUTIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18758, 11 January 1923, Page 5

ILFORD EXECUTIONS

*>■ : WOMAN CARRIED TO THE SCAFFOLD. BYWATERS DIES BRAVELY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright * LONDON, January 9. ilrs Thompson and Bywaters made no statement before their execution.. Both had previously reaffirmed their innocence. Mrs Thompson said to the prison chaplain: “I leave the “world with a clear conscience regarding my husband's death.” Large crowds gathered outside the Holloway and Pentonville Prisons. A conspicuous figure at Holloway, where Mrs Thompson was hanged, was a woman carrying a sandwich board reading, ‘‘lf this woman is hanged the judge and jury are murderers also,” and on the other side, “Murder cannot be abolished by murder.” Mrs Thompson was prostrated all night, and was continually under the prison doctor’s care. At 5 o’clock she was unconscious. In her moments of consciousness she asked foi' Bywaters. At Q o’clock (the hour of execution) she was only partially conscious, and had to be carried to the scaffold. Eywaters passed a fairly good night at Pentonville. He awoke early, had a light breakfast, and smoked a cigarette. He sent a message of thanks to the governor and officials and walked firmly to the scaffold. It is stated that the crowd outside Pentonvillc wa,> unprecedented.—A. and N.Z. Cable.