AN APPEAL REJECTED
WOMAN EXECUTED MURDER OF HUSBAND LONDON, Dec. 19. Dramatic eleventh-hour efforts were made to save Mrs. Ethel Major, who! was executed at Hull this morning, foil poisoning her husband with strychnine.) Sho is the first woman executed in! Britain since 1926. The Lord Mayor and many prominent local people, after the Home Secretary’s! rejection of the application for a reprieve, following tiro Criminal Appeal Court’s dismissal of the appeal, tele-j graphed Their Majesties, declaring that) the impending execution has greatly distressed thousands of women.
Mrs. Major, who .was 42 years of age, was a grandmother. She was convicted after an anonymous writer suggested to the police that her husband had been poisoned. , Mrs, Major, in evidence at the trial, said her husband had repeatedly threatened her. She admitted jealousy of his attentions to a neighbor's wife, but pro-i tested her innocence.
Their Majesties’ private secretary transmitted the Lord Mayor’s telegram to the Home Secretary. I
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18585, 20 December 1934, Page 5
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