Tag: Ruth Ellis

• On This Day in 1934, Ethel Lillie Major.

  

  Normally this time of year would be cause for celebration, a time of Christmas cheer and goodwill to all men. That wasn’t the case for Ethel Major who stood condemned for the murder of her husband Arthur. For her the previous couple of days had been spent sobbing and incoherent as she pondered her imminent…

  CrimeScribe

  December 19, 2019

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized

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