Execution in Sydney
IBy Electric 'Telegraph. — Copyrigibt ) [PEit TOaXED P&EBS ASSQQIAXIQK. [ i ' .Sxsxbx, January 8. j Louisa ColEne, sentenced -to death •on a charge .of poisoning her husband, > <w.aß executed ,to-day. A serious j bungle was made. The execution- '■ ttrap, on which the unfortunate woman :• £tood, refused ;to act, and it was quite ' ;SQsee. before the drop took place afit x ' ithe aigual had been .given. All this | •titne the .doomed >wom&n displayed \ wonderful calmness, and .when .the! Lydrop fell her ikead .was .almost severed i r* tf rum .the trunk. Mrs Ctdtius was re- ; .-served ito the last, and tmade no eon ■'. Session, it iis ifoiity year* .a wumau .was executed in Syduey. ;
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 80, 10 January 1889, Page 3
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