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Paperback Walk Towards the Gallows: The Tragedy of Hilda Blake, Hanged 1899 Book

ISBN: 0802095429

ISBN13: 9780802095428

Walk Towards the Gallows: The Tragedy of Hilda Blake, Hanged 1899

On 5 July 1899 Hilda Blake, a 21-year-old maidservant in Brandon, Manitoba, who had come to Canada from England ten years earlier as an orphan immigrant, shot and killed her mistress. Two days after Christmas she was hanged, one of the few women in Canadian history to die for her crime.

Blake unintentionally left a remarkable documentary record, ranging from Poorhouse records, courts dockets of custody and criminal cases in which she was...

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