Michael Collins died on 8 July 1888 of what the post mortem indicated was arsenic poisoning. One of the three trials was in relation to the deaths of her first husband Charles Andrews in January 1887, the cause according to the doctor who signed his death certificate was Acute Gastritis, three were in relation to her second husband Michael Collins the man she married just three months after the demise of the first. On 8 January 1889, Louisa Collins, a 41-year-old mother of ten children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the last woman hanged in New South Wales.Ĭaroline Overington has researched the story behind Louisa Collin’s four, yes you read that correctly, four trials for murder.
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