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her own trial, describing how she and
. Ray sometimes made love right after
committing a murder. The two lovers:

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: tions of ‘Winnie Ruth Judd. In 1931, Winnie
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who have wielded axes, clubs and knives,
that It is difficult: to know just where to ©
start. Lest we forget, re are those
more timid gals who have administered
poison and pulled triggers, thereby.
sending enemies, and even friends, ‘to
their untimely deaths.: 5

Who can forget Constance Kent, ‘the
16-year-old English girl who, on June 29,
1860, slit her four-year-old brother's
throat from ear to ear? Suspicion fell on.
Connie, and she was arrested. She was
soon released, and the Kent’s family
nurse was arrested for the same crime.
She'too was released. To get away from it
all, Connie entered a convent in France
and became a nun. Four years later she
confessed to the murder, and stood trial,
Connie pleaded iity and was-sentenced
to death, but later this ‘sentence was
‘commuted to life imprisonment.

Mary Ann Cotton was a nurse by pro-
fession and a mass murderer by inclina-
tion. For 20 vears, ending in 1873, Mary
murdered an. assortment of husbands,
children, and just plain folks. Some say
her total number of victims was close to
20. Her motive was‘insurance money, and
occasionally boredom with a tiresome
husband. Mary gave birth to a baby five
days before she was hanged in Durham
Prison on March 24, 1873.

She was hanged *

Before we leave the fairer sex of
Merrie England, we would be amiss not
to mention Ruth Ellis, the last lady to be
hanged in England. Ruth emptied a
Smith and Wesson into her boyfriend,
David Blakely, on the streets of London.
She was tried for murder. When a Crown
attorney .asked her what. her intentions
were when she fired her reyolver at her
lover, she bluntly, and. without a sem-.
blance of tact, replied, “I intended to kill’

him.” On July 13, 1955, Ruth Ellis was
hanged. - at Pe eT ia
No list of feminine nasties would be‘:

complete without recalling ‘the machina-

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ity of all these

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During her lengthy incarceration.in the
Arizona State Hospital, she escaped *
seven times. On one occasion she was
free for six years. The once beautiful
doctor’s wife was paroled in 1971, and is
now free to senda trunks wherever .she
chooses. . a
Martha Beck was not a nice person.
Tipping the scales at 280 jpoun is, she
found it ever so difficult to cultivate male -
friends. Taking the rather desperate step
of joining a lonely heart's club, she man-

"| aged to meet Ray Fernandez. The two

soon became lovers, and decided to use
the lonely heart's clubs to snare victims,
would seduce the love-starved

commit murder in order to obtain their
victims’ worldly goods.

Martha and Ray murdered 66-year-old °
Janet Fay, a widow who had answered
one of their advertisements. Next they
proceeded to murder Delphine Downing
and her 20-month-old child. These were
the only three murders officially attri-
buted to the Lonely Hearts Killers, but it

Stitches needed
when stunt blown

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Free as the wind i.

Because they. were both under.18, they
were given indeterminate prison sen-
tences. It is less than gratifying to note,
that, at'this writing, both girls are
as free as the wind.

was placed aboard Quebec Airwa:

bound for Seven Istands. It exp!

Cap Tourmente, killing all 23 people
aboard. One of the passengers was Mrs.
Albert Guay, whose husband had engin-

eered the entire plot. biarguerite's crip- -
pled brother, Genereux Ruest, had man-

ufactured the bomb. Guay confessed, and
all three were hanged. ie Ae

Of course, as Canadians, we cannot
overlook Evelyn Dick, who stood trial
twice for scattering pleces of her hus-
band’s body over Hamilton, Mountain.
in 1946. Initially Evelyn was found guilty
and sentenced to death.
was granted a second trial. This time
around she was found not gufity.

Evelyn was then tried for the murder of
her own baby boy, whose body was disco-
vered in her home, completely encased in
cement. She was found.guilty of man-
slaughter and sentenced to life imprison-
ment. Evelyn, who cannot be considered
a pleasant lady, has long since been
released from prison. ne

Rywa Wertman arrived in Canada
from Poland in 1951 with her husband

, Isaac. Twenty. years. later Rywa. and.
Isaac were: not getting along. Maybe
that’s an understatement. You see, Rywa
and Manfred Baron, plotted Isaac's

murder. Although they contradicted each-

other at their trials, it is almost certain
both were present when Isaac was
clubbed to death in an

She appealed and -

LIZZIE BORDEN

Slashed her parents?

MARTHA BECK :
“Lonely Hearts” slayer.” 2

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“First contract
$2 million
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parking lot. Later, Manfred disposed of
the body by burning it in a drum liberally
doused with diesel fuel. d

a Carl Sagan, au-
thor of several popular sci-
ence books for. non-scientists,

an 11-year prison sentence, while Rywa
pass sent away for elght years for her part
in the m

Lizzie Borden

No narrative about ladies who ‘have
taken x matters into their own hands can be
pul

has 8 $2-million ~
contract for his first novel —
Contact. ng

> The story will,.deal with
man's. first encounter with

Lextraterrestrial beings. -

Sagan's latest non-fiction
book, Cosmos, is a best seller,
The Cornell University pro-
fessor. is also the author of

ik The Dragons.of Eden, which

won a Pulitzer Prize in 1978. ||
Sagan, 45, signed the con-

.tract with Simon and Schus-

ter,. the newspaper; says,

‘even though he is working

evidence against her, Lizzie
not guilty. te

We all adhere to the. old adage that

crime. doesn’t pay, except of course in

Lizzie’s case. She inherited her parent’s

fortune, and lived in relative luxury -

until 1927, when she died of natural

causes, < . ee
Who ever said that women were the’

weaker sex? & ns ep: SAL

under. a four-book. contract >
with Random House: .
Scott Meredith,’ Sagan's

‘agent, ‘said .the Random~
House contract applied only -@

to non-fiction. “Random

House was quite resentful,” @

Meredith said, Z
‘Anthony M-. Schulte, -exe--
cutive vice president of Ran-

-dom House, said the company

interpreted the contract dif-
ferently, but chose not: to
argue the point.

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It wasn't the first time
Alan “America” Jones ever

dived 10 metres into a 76-.

centimetre pool filled with
live piranhas, But it took him
a little longer than expected
to get out,

When: Jones dived in dur-
ing his act recently at the Se-
attle Boat Show, he hit his
head on the side of the pool
and was delayed a few sec-
onds in parting company with
the voracious South: Amer-
ican fish,

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the hospital where he‘ re~
ceived stitches for ‘at leas!
eight bites. i

Jones, whd makes his liv-
ing doing unusual stunts, was
undeterred by the mishap.

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