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9781554390267
"It wasn't until Mary was led to the scaffoldand the rope was placed about her neckthat she cried out, as though finallyrealizing that she was going to hang."Women in Canada frequently got away with murder and escaped the hangman's noose. A few were not so fortunate. The first woman hanged in Upper Canada was Mary Osborn, who was executed for murdering her husband. Her gruesome story and those of seven other deadly women are told in this collection of spine-chilling tales from Ontario.MacDonald, Cheryl is the author of 'Deadly Women of Ontario ' with ISBN 9781554390267 and ISBN 1554390265.
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