Posted on 02/18/2024 5:02:52 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
New Zealand got itself permanently out of the execution business after hanging Walter Bolton this date in 1957 for the murder of his wife. The 68-year-old farmer was condemned after his wife finally succumbed to a year-long bout with some mysterious recurring ailment — and the post-mortem revealed long-term arsenic poisoning. Since Bolton turned out to have been having an affair with his wife’s sister, the pieces just fell right into place. Jurors found these circumstances credible enough to stretch Bolton’s neck, but there’s the small problem that Walter Bolton himself also tested for arsenic poisoning.
The defense argued that the farm’s wells must have soaked up the poison from sheep dip....
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So they hung an innocent man and let a guilty woman..Ardern..skate.
The Scott Peterson case comes to mind here.
I can think of another Bolton who DOES deserve to hang.
“We hanged the wrong Bolton!”
What means that in Kiwieese?
It’s Britspeak for a complete mess. A dog’s breakfast is a situation that’s disorganized to the point of chaos.
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