The Poisoning of Those Close to Mary Britland but Was She Responsible?
Manchesters first woman hung.
Mary Britland is famous for being the first woman executed by hanging at Strangeways Prison in Manchester. James Berry executed her on 9th August 1886; as she went to the gallows, she still proclaime…
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