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THE STOCKBRIDGE MURDER CASE

1889

Part VI

AN EFFORT TO EXERCISE CALM JUDGEMENT

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The law has been allowed to “take its course” upon the miserable woman Jessie King or Kean, and yesterday morning, she was executed within the walls of the Calton Prison.

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