She died an agonising and slow death at home which, though it was never proved, bore all the hallmarks of poisoning by strychnine.

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The last person to be hanged at Hull Prison was Ethel Major in 1934, who was convicted of killing her husband Arthur by poisoning his corned beef with strychnine.

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