Posted on 03/02/2021 3:39:26 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1921, George Bailey was hanged at Oxford Gaol for murder.
The milkman was grooming a young woman named Lillian Marks as a potential mistress which all came horribly to public light when Marks reported to police Bailey’s attempt to rape her. The ensuing investigation revealed that the creeper had gone so far as to poison to death his 22-year-old wife to disencumber himself in anticipation of trading up to his prospective paramour. When arrested at a train station he had more doses of prussic acid as well as a suicide letter/confession.
This open-and-shut homicide tried at Aylesbury in January 1921 was distinguished as the first capital trial with women in the jury pool. Maud Stevenson, Annie White and Matilda Tack were the subject of intense — often cringe — attention by Fleet Street for their novelty: only on July 28, 1920 did the UK swear in its first female juror. In Bailey’s case, there was at least one instance of a barrister attempting to bowdlerize some sordid detail on account of the tender sentiments of the lady-jurors, only to be reprimanded by the judge. When free to speak after the case, the women made a point of insisting that nothing about the ordeal of the jurybox taxed the capacities of women, even in a death case....
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Hanged in Pottersville.
Set up by Mr Potter no doubt.
I guess it wasn’t such a ‘wonderful life’, after all!
No It’s a Wonderful Life for him...
I don’t remember It’s A Wonderful Life ending like this! Deleted scenes?
If only he had listened to Clarence....
I guess in this crowd, It’s a Wonderful Life rings a bell...
“hanged by female jurors”
They wished he was hung.
Is this why they call the British court the “Old Bailey”?
I'm sure there was a perfectly innocent explanation for all that.
"And dey was right!"
Trial, January 1921
Hanged, March 2, 1921
Kinda like Obama and all the druggies he released.
It was a wonderful life.
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