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February 2019

The Hanging of Louisa COLLINS 1889

The hanging of Louisa Collins was a disaster. She suffered a botched trial and then a botched hanging. It took four trials by jury to convict Louisa of murdering her second husband, Michael, by arsenic poisoning in 1888. Thirty-six men failed to find enough evidence to convict her in three trials, but the Crown persisted. A panel of…
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