Wilmer Hadley, 1921 December 9

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that his photograph was circulated all over the United States
mas not located until August, 1921, when he was recognized

! in Falmouth, New Mexico. Arrested and re«

1e admitted that he had killed his wife and pro-=

vided details of the slaying but maintained that he had done son be-=

SHABSKSE cause of her infidelities. This was sane disproved

had been a Vane and devoted wife to hime Convicted and sentenced

to death, he was electrocuted at the Virginia State Prison on

Dece 95 192h, fi haintained his calm and poise right up until the

moment the electricity coursed through his body. When the attendants

] d usting the leg straps, he leaned over and assisted

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her infidel ly
g and devoted wife to him. Convicted < sentenced
electrocuted at the Vi ia State Pri
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Hadley, a white 36-year-old physician and Army Major, was the head
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surgeon at the Army ene pital on the campus of the University of Yee
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Richmond, Va, -He had grown tired of his wife, “velyn, and fell in
love with a young nurse on his staff. The situation became an in-
tolerable one after he asked the nurse to marry him and his wife re-
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to go for a ride with him in a canoe on the James Rivers. While on
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the water, he drugged her and then drowned her,. tie used the anchor
from the canoe for a weight and sonsigned the body to the bottom of
the river where it would have com had not the anchor worked
loose three weeks later. by tha t time, Hadley had been di cava |
from the military and had left, a that he was going wes eae
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who had preceded him there with some F#XA8Ky “After con=
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his wife had d&éd and been buried in San Juan,
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CKO recor rds rev ealed that a woman had been buried
or Livelyn oaley., When the nurse to whom the
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was finally located, she said that the last
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wife had died in California, Kak Spite

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sician and Army Ma,

his wife, “velyn, and
- The situation becare
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n November, 1918, her pers
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Wilmer Hadley executed on 1921-12-09 in Virginia (VA)
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