The Archive · 1935

Shanghai Murder Recalled

Mrs. Katherine Hadley Taken to Holloway Gaol London, Oct 11.

Mrs. Katherine Hadley, who was sentenced to death on October 1033, by the British Supreme Court Shanghai for the murder of her husband, and later granted a reprieve, was taken to-day to. the Holloway gaol where she will serve her term life imprisonment.

Mrs. Hadley arrived to-day aboard the P. & 0, s. Naldera, and. was taken off at Tubury by the police and 2 wardress from the Holloway gaol.

She was charged with having murdered her husband, Captain Waller Clifford Hadley, on August 16, 1003. On October, 18, the jury returned a verdict of "guilty," but added a Strong recommendation for mercy.

Mrs. Hadley, however, was given the supreme penalty." An' appeal against. the sentence was dismissed, Dut, on December 12) it was an-trounced that Sir Miles Lampson. then British Afinister to China, had. com= muted her sentence of death to one of imprisonment for lite—-Reuter,

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