MURDERESS EXECUTED
HANGED AT HULL.
POISONED HER HUSBAND.
REPRIEVE EFFORTS FAIL. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. ■ LONDON, Dec. 18. Despite dramatic eleventh-hour efforts to save Mrs Ethel Major, who was convicted of poisoning her husband, .she was hanged at Hull this morning. She was the first woman to be executed in Britain since 1926. Alderman Stark, Lord Mayor of Hull, and many prominent local people, after the rejection by the Home Secretary, Sir John Gilmour, of an application for reprieve following the Criminal Appeal Court’s dismissal qf the appeal, telegraphed to Their Majesties saying that the Impending execution greatly distressed thousands of women.
Mi's Major, who was 42 years old, was a grandmother. She was convicted after the writer of an anonymous letter had suggested to the police that her husband had been poisoned. In giving evidence at her trial the woman said her husband repeatedly threatened her. She admitted she was jealous of his attentions to a neighbour’s wife,- but protested her innocence.
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19455, 20 December 1934, Page 9
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