Word: soult
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...hole spiritualist meetings, makes phonograph records of them. Lately she has been untiring in behalf of one Leonard Albert Brigstock, onetime petty officer in His Majesty's Navy, sentenced to hang for slitting the throat of Chief Petty Office Deggan on the gunnery training ship Marshal Soult. Crusader Van der Elst assembled 65,000 signatures to a petition for a reprieve; offered to hire a brain surgeon to prove that Brigstock was insane. Nonetheless the trap was due to drop under Brigstock at 9 a. m. one day last week in South London's Wandsworth Prison...