Age: 22
Sex: female
Date: 10 Apr 1911
Place: 41 Pagoda Avenue, Richmond, London
Elsie Sweetman died from an illegal operation.
A nurse from Pimlico was tried for her murder after Elsie Sweetman made a dying declaration against her but it was heard that at the time she made the declaration that it was not believed that she was going to die as after she had made plans to get married and so the statement, the only evidence against the nurse, was not allowed at the trial as evidence. It was also heard that there might have been an accomplice and that the declaration should have been heard by both of the accused.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see National Archives - CRIM 1/120/5
see London Daily News - Thursday 25 May 1911
see Gloucestershire Echo - Thursday 04 May 1911
see The Scotsman - Wednesday 10 May 1911
see Globe - Friday 28 April 1911
see Aberdeen Press and Journal - Thursday 25 May 1911
see Leicester Daily Post - Saturday 29 April 1911
see Globe - Wednesday 24 May 1911
see Unsolved 1911