Sad True story.

Subject: Sad True story. Mon Feb 06, 2017 7:38 am

68 year-old Walter Bolton, born at Mangamahu in 1888, was the last person to be executed in New Zealand. Bolton was hanged in 1957 for the murder of his wife Beatrice, who died of arsenic poisoning. The death penalty for murder was abolished in New Zealand in 1961.

Bolton's farm at Okoia, just 5 kilometres east of Wanganui, was tested and found to contain arsenic, and traces of arsenic were also found in small doses in her tea. The quantity consumed over the best part of a year was enough to kill. Bolton admitted to having had an affair with his wife's sister, Florence, a widow living in Wanganui. This was considered motive enough for the murder.

Bolton dipped his sheep with Young's arsenical sheep dip powder, and the water from the dipping was emptied into a gully, near where water for his farm house water tank was pumped from a spring.

This water was tested and found to contain arsenic, and traces of arsenic were also found in Walter and one of his daughters, and the defence argued that sheep dip had inadvertently got into the farm's water supply.

But the trial was in mid-December: and with eight of the jury being busy people who wanted to get back to their pre-Christmas preparations, they deliberated only two hours before bringing a verdict.

A year later Florence commited suicide, also by arsenic poisoning, and the ambulance driver who attended the scene later reported she left a note saying she had killed Beatrice.

Subject: Re: Sad True story. Mon Feb 06, 2017 7:53 am

I used to believe in the death penalty, but I now have the sense to realise that mistakes can and have happened.

Subject: Re: Sad True story. Mon Feb 06, 2017 6:47 pm

I agree with you andsome - people who have committed the very worst heinous crimes should be incarcerated for life in a small cell equipped with Bose speakers playing non-stop Mahler at full volume.

Subject: Re: Sad True story. Mon Feb 06, 2017 6:50 pm

AlanHo wrote:: I agree with you andsome - people who have committed the very worst heinous crimes should be incarcerated for life in a small cell equipped with Bose speakers playing non-stop Mahler at full volume.

That would be great,as long as I was fed decent mealsI would enjoy that,bring it on. hat

Subject: Re: Sad True story. Mon Feb 06, 2017 7:17 pm

You need to commit a heinous crime

Subject: Re: Sad True story. Mon Feb 06, 2017 8:16 pm

AlanHo wrote:: You need to commit a heinous crime

I'm not letting on. Shhh

Subject: Re: Sad True story. Mon Feb 06, 2017 9:09 pm

Don't do it - 'er indoors would miss your guidance and we would miss your incessant bragging.

Subject: Re: Sad True story. Fri Feb 10, 2017 11:28 am

My opinion (for what is worth) is that In every case the murderer should not be killed but instead should be compelled to work in controlled conditions to provide money to pay for everything that was provided by the murdered person. Granted there will be certain things that can not be reproduced but it would not be long before the number of murders reached rock bottom.

p.s. I once knew a girl called that.

Subject: Re: Sad True story. Sat Feb 11, 2017 1:45 pm

AlanHo wrote:: I agree with you andsome - people who have committed the very worst heinous crimes should be incarcerated for life in a small cell equipped with Bose speakers playing non-stop Mahler at full volume.

yes indeed

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