Does anyone know anything about Murderess Selina Wadge?
Prior to Louisa Masset, she's the only mother to be executed for murdering her child during the Late Victorian period. She was executed in Bodmin Gaol's execution shed either 21 July 1878 or 15 August of 1878 by adjusted long drop in a private execution in which members of the press were denied access to the event. The action apparantly traumatized the prison staff who carried it out. She was a single mother of two who after being released from the Bodmin workhouse, tossed her son down a well believing a man might marry her if she got rid of him. She may have been a maid of some kind.
According to spiritual sources her ghost haunts the old prison filled with remorse over what she did.
Prior to Louisa Masset, she's the only mother to be executed for murdering her child during the Late Victorian period. She was executed in Bodmin Gaol's execution shed either 21 July 1878 or 15 August of 1878 by adjusted long drop in a private execution in which members of the press were denied access to the event. The action apparantly traumatized the prison staff who carried it out. She was a single mother of two who after being released from the Bodmin workhouse, tossed her son down a well believing a man might marry her if she got rid of him. She may have been a maid of some kind.
According to spiritual sources her ghost haunts the old prison filled with remorse over what she did.
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