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Ada Chard-Williams

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Ada CHARD-WILLIAMS (*1876) was hanged March 08, 1900 in London’s Newgate Prison. Thus she was the last woman to be executed here. After 1900 women were executed in women’s prison Holloway.

Ada Chard-Williams was convicted of battering and strangling to death 21 month old Selina Jones in Barnes in London in September 1899. Florence Jones, a young unmarried mother, had read an advert in the local paper which offered to find adoptive homes for unwanted children. She agreed to pay £5 to a Mrs. Hewetson (Ada Chard Williams) but could only give her £3 on the day. Being an honest woman she went back later with the balance and found that Mrs. Hewetson and Selina had vanished. Florence reported the matter to the police who discovered that Mrs. Hewetson was really Ada Chard Williams. However they had no body to prove there had been a murder, at least not until little Selina’s corpse was washed up on the bank of the Thames at Battersea. Like Amelia Dyer Chard -Williams had her own „signature“ way of wrapping up bodies she wished to dispose of which was a crucial piece of evidence at her trial at the Old Bailey on the 16th and 17th of February 1900. She went to her appointment with James Billington on the gallows in the execution shed in the yard of Newgate prison on Wednesday the 8th March 1900. She was the last woman to be hanged at Newgate. She was suspected of killing other children although no further allegations were proceeded with.

Williamina „Minnie” Dean

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Minnie Dean has the dubious honor of being the only woman to be legally hanged in New Zealand.
Christened Williamina Dean, she was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1847. She married and had two daughters. What happened to her daughters is unknown. In 1868 she emigrated to New Zealand and lived in Southland with an old woman she called Granny Kelly. In 1872, she married Charles Dean, an old Southland settler. In 1886 the Deans moved to a 22-acre estate known as The Larches, at East Winton. Winton is situated 19 miles from Invercargill on the railway that then ran from the Southland capital to Kingston. A fire destroyed their home when they first moved in and a small twenty-two feet by twelve feet dwelling was built. Minnie Dean set up a baby-farming business, advertising children for adoption.The babies she took into care were illegitimate children brought from their mother’s, provided no more questions were asked. In October 1889, Minne Irene Dean, came to the attention of the authorities after a six-month-old baby died three days after being taken ill whilst in Dean’s care but the death certificate showed natural causes due to convulsions. Two years later, in May 1891, a six week old baby died, again in Dean’s care. An inquest was held but it found that death was from natural causes. Dean became more secretive with her dealings and began advertising using false names. In May 1895, a railway guard reported he had seen a woman board the train with a baby but disembark without it.This happened within the train range of East Winton and police began their enquiries. This led police to a Mrs Hornsby who resided in Dunedin. She told police she had handed over her one-month-old grand-daughter with money to Dean at Milburn, four miles north of Milton. Police brought Mrs Hornsby to The Larches, Dean’s residence. There she recognised not only Dean but a piece of baby’s clothing belonging to her grand-daughter. Dean was arrested and sent to Dunedin to await trial. Police searched the flowerbeds and found two babies bodies buried. Charles Dean was also arrested and the six children in their care were taken away by police. The two bodies were identified as Eva Hornsby (Mrs Hornsby’s grand-daughter) and Dorothy Edith Carter (handed over to Minnie by her grandm On August 12, 1895, Minnie Dean, at Invercargill prison , was marched to the gallows. Her final words were „No, I have nothing to say, except that I am innocent“. The search continued and another baby’s body was found. Dean was charged with the murder of two infants. After further examination of the case, the charges against Charles Dean were dropped. The police theory was that she had taken the Carter infant on the train from Winton and changed trains to get to Lumsden. During the trip to Lumsden she had killed the child and concealed it’s body in a hat box she was carrying. Staying overnight in Lumsden, she boarded the Waimea Plains train to Gore, where she then boarded the Dunedin Express. At Milburn, she met Mrs Hornsby, leaving the hatbox and it’s contents in a waiting room. She was accompanied by Mrs Hornsby on another train to Clarendon, the next station on the way to Dunedin. She alighted with Eva Hornsby in her arms and waved goodbye to Mrs Hornsby who continued on to Dunedin. It is here, where Eva Hornsby was smothered. Dean wrapped her body into a parcel and boarded the train back to Clinton. On the way she picked up the hatbox from Milburn. Now carrying two dead babies, she went back to Winton. The case was heard at Invercargill. Many witnesses stepped forward to deliver their testimony. The jury heard: Oilcloth found wrapped around Dorothy Edith Carter’s body was from the Dean’s home. The railway guard who saw Dean get on the train with the hatbox and baby and leave carrying a hatbox only. A friend who lived with the Deans for fourteen years identified Minnie’s handwriting as the signature ‚M.Gray‘ in the Bluff poison register. Dean claimed she had carried flower bulbs in the hatbox – but the woman who Dean said she had got them off said she had only given her flower cuttings. The clothing found in Dean’s possession was identified as that of Dorothy Edith Carter. Several bottles of laudanum and chlorodyne were found in Dean’s bedroom. Even though Dean was identified by both grandmothers as the woman they gave their grand-daughters to, she denied it, but finally admitting it under duress and with the evidence of the clothes. The verdict was guilty of the murder of Dorothy Edith Carter. The sentence – death by hanging.

Amelia Elizabeth Dyer

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Frances Knorr

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Amelia Sach

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Annie Walters and Amelia Sach, the „Finchley Baby Farmers“ became the first women to be hanged in the new women’s prison at Holloway on the 3rd of February 1903 by William Billington and Henry Pierrepoint. Previously female executions in London had been carried out at Newgate prison. 29 year old Amelia Sach ran a „nursing home“ which offered a haven for unmarried mothers to have their babies in and which, for a fee, claimed it would care for the infant afterwards. Sach told her clients that she could arrange for foster parents for the babies for an additional fee. Once the mother had left the baby with Sach, she would pass it over to 54 year old Annie Walters who would murder it, either with a dose of Chlorodyne (a morphine based drug that causes asphyxia in babies or by suffocation, if the Chlorodyne didn’t work, before disposing of the body in the Thames or burying it on a rubbish dump. Walters was neither literate or very bright and in 1902 decided take one of the babies home. She lived in rented accommodation and her landlord was a police officer. She told him that she was looking after the little girl while her parents were on holiday and his wife helped her change the baby’s nappy. The policeman’s wife noted that the little girl was actually a boy. A few days later, Mrs Walters told the couple that the child had died in its sleep and she seemed genuinely upset about his death. A few months later she did the same thing again and this time her landlord became suspicious when this second child died. She was duly arrested and charged with the murder of the child. Further bodies were discovered from the information Walters gave the police and Amelia Sach was also now implicated in these murders. The police had enough evidence to charge them both with murder. Many items of baby’s clothing were found by the police when they searched Sach’s home and they may have murdered as many as 20 children. They were tried at the Old Bailey on the 15th and 16th of January 1903, before Mr. Justice Darling. It took the jury 40 minutes to find them both guilty. They were taken back to Holloway and were hanged there by William Billington and Henry Pierrepoint on Tuesday the 3rd of February. On the day of her execution Amelia Sach was in a state of virtual collapse in the condemned cell. Pierrepoint recorded in his diary the following „These two women were baby farmers of the worst kind and they were both repulsive in type. One was two pounds less than the other (in weight) and there was a difference of two inches in the drop which I allowed. One (Sachs) had a long thin neck and the other (Walters) a short neck, points which I was bound to observe in the arrangement of the rope. They had to be literally carried to the scaffold and protested to the end against their sentences“. This was to be the last double female hanging in Britain.

Lila Gladys Young

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Lila Coolen was the daughter of devout Seventy-Day Adventist parents, born at Fox Point, Nova Scotia, in 1899. At age twenty-six, she met and married William Peach Young, an Oregon native transplanted to New Brunswick, where he aspired to the role of an Adventist medical missionary without benefit of ordination or medical training. Soon after their marriage, with Lila expecting the first of five children, the Youngs moved to Chicago, where William was licensed as a chiropractor in December 1927. Two months later, they moved back to Nova Scotia, opening the Life and Health Sanitarium in East Chester, forty miles southwest of Halifax. Lila entered service as a professional midwife, and their establishment was soon rechristened the Ideal Maternity Home and Sanitarium, with William acting as the superintendent and Lila as managing director. Clients flocked to the home in response to newspaper advertisements that read: IDEAL MATERNITY HOME Mothers Refuge also department for girls. NO PUBLICITY Infants home in connection. Write for literature. East Chester, N.S. Brochures for the home promised to shield Expectant Mothers from gossip, but every service had its price. Married women seeking refuge with the Youngs paid an average of $75 each for delivery and two weeks of convalescence in the early days of operation, but unwed mothers, frightened of scandal, faced a stiffer price. The Youngs demanded an average of $100 or $200 in advance for room and board, delivery of the infant, and arranging subsequent adoptions, plus another $12 for diapers and supplies, with an average two-dollar weekly maintenance fee for warehousing infants between delivery and adoption. If a baby died at the home, the mother was charged $20 for a funeral–performed by the Youngs handyman at a standing rate of fifty cents per corpse, with white pine butter boxes standing in for coffins. In short, it was the classic baby farming racket, elevated to an art form. Girls without the ready cash in hand were some-times allowed to work off their debts at the home, thus providing the Youngs with a steady stream of unpaid domestic help. Medical care was another realm open to shortcuts, with Lila and William each billing themselves as doctors on their letterheads. In fact, Lila delivered the babies herself, while William knelt at the bedside in prayer, but some clients saw a more ruthless side of the Youngs, complaining of Lilas rough–even brutal–handling. She was physically immense, one client recalled. She had an overwhelming presence and a great sense of power. She could strike terror into people. No one dared challenge her. In short order, the Ideal Maternity Home became a virtual baby factory, hosting scores of unwed mothers averaging age seven-teen. Between 1928 and 1935, Lila reported 148 births and twelve infant deaths at the home–a mortality rate of 8.1% that nearly tripled Nova Scotias 3.1% average. On March 4, 1936, Lila and William were charged with two counts of manslaughter in the January deaths of Eva Nieforth and her newborn child, allegedly caused by negligence and unsanitary conditions at the home. Both were acquitted at a three-day trial in May 1936, but the Royal Canadian Mounted Police adopted a policy of investigating each reported death at the home in years to come. One problem, of course, was the issue of un reported infant deaths. Handyman Glen Shatford would later admit burying between 100 and 125 babies in a field owned by Lilas parents near Fox Point, adjoining the Adventist cemetery. We buried them in rows, he said, so it was easy to see how many there were. In a typical case, recalled by Shatford from April 1938, an unnamed infant lay in the Youngs tool shed for five days, covered by a box, before it was driven to Fox Point for burial. A motive for the surreptitious disposal may be found in Lilas standard charge of $300 to board a baby for the rest of its natural life. Some were farmed out to a neighbor who cared for their needs at three dollars a week, while others reached the end of their natural lives in record time. Some adoption rejects–including children of mixed race or those with physical defects–were reportedly starved to death on a diet of water and molasses. For all the money paid to Lila and her husband by their pregnant clients, the Youngs made their greatest profit from adoptive parents, charging an average of $800 to $1,000 per infant in the 1930s, escalating to an average $5,000 per head during World War II. In the 1940s, Ideal Maternity earned $60,000 per year from its live-in clients, including a special $50 fee from any mother who specified adoptive parents of a particular religion. On the flip side, Lila and William banked at least $3.5 million from the adoption–i.e., sale–of infants between 1937 and 1947. One client who changed her mind in 1946 and sought to get her child back was told the boy had already been placed for adoption, but he might be retrieved … if the mother could come up with $10,000 in cash. By 1943, the Youngs were housing seventy infants on any given day. Their original cottage had grown to a sprawling complex of fifty-four rooms, fourteen bathrooms, and multiple nurseries, valued at $40,000 with no outstanding mortgage. Clients could reserve private or semiprivate rooms, if they were put off by the thought of sleeping on a common ward. Business was so good, in fact, that Lila began to brag … and thereby caused herself no end of grief. Public health officials had been watching the Youngs for a decade, but they found their first concrete evidence of neglect in 1945, inspectors reporting squalid conditions, swarming flies and filthy bedding, some infants weighing 50% of the norm for their age. Lila fired back with charges of harassment, but her time was running out. A new amendment to the Maternity Boarding House Act of 1940 broadened licensing requirements to incorporated companies, and the Youngs license application was swiftly rejected, Ideal Maternity ordered shut down in November 1945. It was not that simple to close a multimillion-dollar business, of course. and the Youngs continued to operate without a license while their case was on appeal. U.S. Immigration officers joined the chorus of complaints in early 1945, citing evidence that Lila had smuggled black market babies into the States. In March, the Youngs were arraigned on eight counts including violation of the Maternity Boarding House Act and practicing medicine without a license, but their conviction on three counts, on March 27, resulted in a piddling fine of $150. On June 5, 1946, they were convicted of illegally selling babies to four American couples, fined a total of $428.90. William, drinking heavily by now, was later convicted of perjury based on his testimony at the June trial, but babies were still being born at Ideal Maternity in early 1947. The end, when it came, was as much a result of Lilas arrogance as any official action. Fuming at media coverage of her case, she filed a $25,000 libel suit against the local newspaper, thereby opening the floodgates of damning testimony from all sides. Jurors dismissed her suit after brief deliberation, and the trial exposed her operation for the brutal, mercenary sham it was. Ideal Maternity was closed before years end, the Youngs bankrupt and debt-ridden, selling off their property and moving to Quebec. The home, scheduled for conversion into a resort hotel, burned to the ground on September 23, 1962. Cancer claimed Williams life before Christmas, and Lila died of leukemia in 1967. Her tombstone bears the legend: Till We Meet Again.