(no subject)
Ruth Ellis was born in the Welsh town of Rhyl in 1926. She was raised a staunch Catholic as one of many siblings. At age fourteen she left school to become a waitress and continued the job in order to support her family when they moved to Londen in 1941. At seventeen she was impregnated by a Canadian soldier who tended to her as long as he was in the country.
When the soldier returned to his home, Ruth's faith in men was shaken. She became a club hostess and in 1950 she married fourty-one year old George Ellis. This relationship did not survive however, and they seperated in 1951 with the birth of Georgina--George refused parenthood of the baby, believing that Ruth had been whoring.
After the seperation, Ruth took up with a man called David Blakely. By 1953 she managed her own club and consented to marry Blakly though he was a notorious spender and playboy. The relationship soon deteriorated as each took on lovers and Blakely fell deeper and deeper into debt.
On Easter Sunday (April 10) 1955 Ruth Ellis shot David Blakely. She did not flee from the scene and simply asked that someone call the police.
On July 3, 1955 Ruth Ellis was hung at Holloway Prison.--the last woman to be excicuted as such in England. She was twenty-eight.
Though over 50,000 people signed to save her life it was futil against the conservative government.