WOMAN HANGED
SEVENTH IN CANADA’S HISTORY. (United Fresa Association—By Electrlo Telegraph— Copyright.) (Received August 23, 8.30 p.m.) OTTAWA, August 22. Mary Viau, who has been executed, is the seventh woman to be hanged. In Canada’s history. She and her paramour poisoned her husband by placing strychnine in his soup. When he became ill, and asked for salts, they fed him with more poison.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18352, 24 August 1929, Page 17
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63WOMAN HANGED Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18352, 24 August 1929, Page 17
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