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Reginald Woolmington, saved from the rope by a ‘Golden Thread.’

When farm labourer and killer Reginald Woolmington entered the dock at Taunton Assizes it was with a heavy heart. The shotgun killing of his estranged wife Violet at her mother’s home on December 10, 1934 looked like an open and shut case. She had left him because of his possessive, controlling and abusive treatment of her. He had stolen a shotgun from his employer, that much had been proved. So…

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