SILK STOCKING CRIME
SWEETHEART STRANGLED It has been announced in London that the Home Secretary has commuted the death sentence on Albert Illingworth, aged 24, engineer, of Bradford, who, at Leeds Assizes on July 18, was found guilty of the murder .of his sweetheart Alice Wade, aged 22, a dyer’s operative. The jury strongly recommended him to -mercy. Alice Wade was found strangled on some waste land near her home on the night of May 9, with a silk stocking tied tightly round her neck. The motive of the crime, it was suggested, was jealousy. At the trial the defence was a plea of insanity. A doctor called by the prosecution agreed that Illingworth wa's an epileptic, but said he found it difficult to accept that Illingworth did not know the nature of the act he committed.
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Evening Star, Issue 23383, 28 September 1939, Page 13
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137SILK STOCKING CRIME Evening Star, Issue 23383, 28 September 1939, Page 13
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