HANGED AS MURDERESS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18992, 17 April 1936, Page 5

HANGED AS MURDERESS

NURSE OF NOTTINGHAM MOTHER OF FIVE CHILDREN PROTEST DEMONSTRATIONS •Hllec. Tel. Copyright—Unitod Press Assn.) LONDON, April 16. Dorothea Nancy Waddingham was executed at tiirmingham to-day for the murder of Ada Louisa Baguley. The crowd was kept a quarter of a mile from the prison. Demonstrations included' a line of sandwichmen bearing placards "Stop this terrible crime of hanging the mother of five children." Mrs. Van der EJst brought a loudspeaker in a van and played hymns. She pretested against the execution but her endeavour to commission six aeroplanes to ily over the prison failed.

Nurse Dorothea Nancy Waddingham was fouiiS guilty at Nottingham Assizes on February 28 of the murder of Miss Ada Louisa Baguley, aged 60. The jury added to the verdict a strong recommendation to mercy. Nurse Waddingham was sentenced to death.

Two days previously Ronald Joseph Sullivan, who had been charged along with Nurse Waddingham, was acquitted. Both had also been accused of the murder of Miss Baguley's mother, who was 87, but in opening the case counsel for the Crown emphasised that the trial related to the death of Ada Baguley only. Sullivan was found not guilty on the second indictment also and discharged. . . Miss Baguley and her mother both died while patient's at a nursing home in Devon drive. Sherwood, Nottingham, run by Nurse Waddingham. A will made bv Miss Baguley left estate valued at £I6OO equally between the nurse and Sullivan. The prosecution alleged that both patients were poisoned.