SCENES AT FUNERAL
BURIAL OF MRS RATTENBY.
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London, June 8.
Over three, thousand, nearly all women, went to Mrs Rattenby’s funeral and trampled graves, necessitating extra police control of the _ crowds, among which a man sought signatures to the petition for Stoner’s reprieve. Hundreds of women signed.
A verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned at the inquest on Mrs Alma Victoria Rattenby, aged 31, who had been acquitted oh a charge of murdering her 67-year-old husband, Francis Mawson Rattenby, of which crime George Percy Stoner, aged 19, was convicted and sentenced to death. Last week Mrs Rattenby’s body was found in the River Stour, with six wounds in the region of the heart. In a letter to the Governor of Pentonville Prison Mrs Rattenby said: ‘‘lf I thought it would help George Stoner I would stay on, but it has been pointed out to me, all too vividly, that I cannot help him. That is my death sentence.” This letter was read at the inquest.
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Southland Times, Issue 25308, 11 June 1935, Page 7
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