Mary Ansell
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Mary Ansell
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Mary Ann Ansell, a housemaid, was hanged at St Albans Prison, England on 19 July 1899, for poisoning her sister Caroline, who was an inmate in an asylum. Her motive was asserted to be to obtain £11.5s from a life insurance policy which she had taken out on Caroline. She sent her a small piece of cake or pastry, like a flat jam sandwich, the middle of which was very yellow and contained phosphorus poison. Her sister had been an inmate at Leavesden Asylum in Abbots Langley. At 18 or 22 years old,
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English murderer
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