Walk Towards the Gallows: The Tragedy of Hilda Blake, Hanged 1899 by Tom Mitchell, Reinhold Kramer

Walk Towards the Gallows: The Tragedy of Hilda Blake, Hanged 1899

Canadian Social History

Tom Mitchell, Reinhold Kramer

318 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

On 5 July 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 i...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...