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Walk towards the gallows : the tragedy of Hilda Blake, hanged 1899
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Walk towards the gallows : the tragedy of Hilda Blake, hanged 1899
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In 1899, Hilda Blake, a 21-year old maidservant in Brandon, Manitoba, who had come to Canada from England ten years earlier as an orphan immigrant, shot and killed her mistress. Two days after Christmas she was hanged, one of the few women in Canadian history to die for her crime.
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Title
Walk towards the gallows : the tragedy of Hilda Blake, hanged 1899
Call No
B BLA
Authors
Kramer, Reinhold, 1959-
Mitchell, Tom, 1949-
Subjects
Blake, Hilda, 1878-1899.
Murderers--Manitoba--Brandon--Biography.
Hanging--Manitoba--Brandon--Biography.
Capital punishment--Manitoba--Brandon--Biography.
Brandon (Man.)--History--Biography.
Language
English
Published
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2007.
Publication Desc
viii, 318 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
ISBN
9780802095428
Series
Canadian social history series
Dimensions
22 cm.