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Sentenced to be hanged
Associated Press · January 9, 1949
Miss Margaret Allen (above), 41, has been sentenced to be hanged after being convicted in Manchester, Eng., of murdering her 68-year-old neighbor, Mrs. Nancy Chadwick. She is to be the first woman to be hanged in Britain since 1936. Miss Allen, who had her hair cut short, dressed like a man and told friends her sex had been changed by an operation, was convicted on Dec. 8.
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