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by the doctor, Alma admitted to attacking him. After Rattenbury died, both Alma and Stoner were arrested and charged with having murdered him alone. The sensational trial took place between 27 May and 31 May 1935, and was heavily covered in the press. Alma was found not guilty, while Stoner was found guilty and sentenced to death. Days later, on 4 June, Alma committed suicide by stabbing herself in the chest six times. Stoner's sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, but he only served seven years before being allowed to join the British Army during the Second World War.
541:, New York City. Pakenham found work as a lecturer on Japan, claiming to have attended the University of Oxford and calling himself "Dr Pakenham"; he had never attended university and held no degrees. Alma gave piano lessons, in contrast to her pre-war status as a concert soloist. The couple married in 1921 and they had a son, Christopher, in July 1921. However, Alma left Pakenham to return to her native Canada in March 1922; their marriage formally ended in divorce in 1925. Alma earned her living in Canada by giving music lessons and composing song music under the pen name 431:(MC) for leading a night raid to capture a crater from the Germans on 6 February 1916: he was injured and 40 British soldiers died during the action. He was injured for a second time on 25 April during a raid on the German trenches and required hospital treatment. He was granted leave to attend the investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace for his MC on 29 May 1916: Alma accompanied her husband to the palace but was obliged to wait outside while he received his medal from King George V. He returned to France and the front in July 1916. On 3 August, he was made a 627:
wrapped around his head and without his trousers; he was unconscious. There was blood covering the armchair and carpet, in the drawing room next door. The local doctor called in a surgeon who, having inspected Rattenbury with difficulty as Alma kept interfering, called an ambulance to take him to Strathallen Nursing Home. There, his head was shaved and three wounds were identified, confirming foul play, contrary to the preliminary assumption of the local doctor that Rattenbury had hit his head on the grand piano in the drawing room.
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There was probably no one in England, and no one in Court when the trial opened, save Mrs. Rattenbury, her solicitor and counsel, Stoner and his solicitor and counsel, and Irene Riggs, who did not think Mrs. Rattenbury was guilty of the crime of murder. The whole truth about Mrs. Rattenbury came out
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On 24 March 1935, Rattenbury was attacked with a wooden mallet while sleeping in an armchair in their drawing room. A local doctor was called and Rattenbury was transferred to a nursing home, but he died five days later. The morning after the attack, and having been heavily sedated the night before
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On 24 March 1935 Rattenbury was sleeping in an armchair in the drawing room when he was struck multiple times in the head with a wooden carpenter's hammer. Alma summoned the local doctor, who arrived by taxi. He found Rattenbury lying on his bed in the downstairs bedroom, with a blood-soaked sheet
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for a teenage male live-in servant. The advertisement was answered by George Percy Stoner (born 1916), a 17-year-old who was thereafter employed by the couple as a chauffeur and handyman. Stoner turned 18 in November 1934 and at some point became the lover of Alma; her husband, Rattenbury, was a
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was on leave from the Army in London when he met and began a relationship with Alma. Packenham had married Phyllis Price in 1915 but, in October 1918, he wrote a letter to his first wife informing her that their marriage was over. Alma was cited in the Packenhams' divorce in 1920.
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life with separate bedrooms on separate floors of their home, Villa Madeira. In September 1934, they employed George Stoner (born 1916) as a chauffeur and handyman, and he moved in to live with them. Stoner and Alma began an affair; Rattenbury was aware and tolerated it.
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Alma was "highly excited, incoherent, and intoxicated" and, when the police arrived, declared that she was the one who had attacked her husband with a mallet. She had to be sedated by the local doctor, who had returned to Villa Madeira at 4am with "half a grain of
600:. The couple married in late 1925 but the controversy that surrounded their infidelity and his subsequent divorce led to their decision to emigrate to England. They had one son, John, born in 1928. That year, Rattenbury retired at the age of 60. 307:, her husband joined up. He was initially stationed in Prince Rupert, where she involved herself in entertaining the troops. In August 1915, they moved to England and her husband was posted to France in October 1915. She worked at the 412:. He was posted to Prince Rupert as second in command, and was involved in local guard duties and the training of soldiers. Alma devoted her spare time to entertaining the troops and creating competitions for them. 642:
On 28 March 1935 Rattenbury died of his injuries and Stoner admitted that he had struck him with a mallet. The following day, on 29 March, Alma and Stoner were both arrested and charged with murder at Bournemouth
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Following the birth of their son the couple maintained a celibate relationship, with separate bedrooms on separate floors of their home, the Villa Madeira, 5 Manor Road,
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Following her husband's death, she underwent a protracted process to be awarded the correct widow's pension. She was initially offered only a
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It was later stated that her experiences in the war, including the loss of her husband and her volunteer work, changed her irreparably.
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with intent to murder. She later stated that she had no recollection of that night and could not remember signing a confession.
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Alma Victoria Wolfe was born to a gold mining prospector and his wife, Elizabeth, who was reputedly related to the cricketer
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Stoner had been sentenced to death, having been found guilty of murder. However, his sentence was later commuted to
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entrance papers that they were a married Irish couple and that Compton was the son of his childless uncle,
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Membery, York (30 November 2002). "Killer's wife speaks out ... 67 years later: The Rattenbury murder".
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during the trial, and the woman, who at first seemed so guilty, was seen to be undoubtedly innocent.
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with star and palm. She was twice wounded during the war. In January 1918, she returned to England.
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decided to proceed against both parties, as both had admitted murder. They were not charged with
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In August 1915, the couple moved to England and her husband was granted a commission in the
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by the author Anthony Quinn mentions the trial as part of its historical background.
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In 1920, the couple emigrated to the United States of America, claiming on their
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York Membery, "Killer's wife speaks out 67 years later: The Rattenbury Murder."
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On 4 June Alma bought a knife, travelled to Bournemouth, and on the bank of the
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in September 1915: he was posted to France in October 1915. Alma worked at the
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Born and educated in Canada, she was a talented musician and played with the
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In 1925, Alma officially divorced Pakenham and was cited in the divorce of
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In 1914, Alma married Caledon Robert John Radclyffe Dolling, the nephew of
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the idea of making a film about "the Rattenbury murder case" with actors
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Impression of the Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumont; painting by
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Silent documentary of the auxiliary hospital at Villers-Cotterêts
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Murray, Elizabeth. "Rattenbury , Alma Victoria (1897/8–1935)".
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The case was dramatised for Australian television in 1958 by
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Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service volunteers
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Williams mentions the story in the 1965 BBC documentary
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in central London, while living with her aunt-in-law in
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In 1918, she began a relationship with the then-married
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Index

Prince Rupert, British Columbia
Bournemouth
English-Canadian
Francis Rattenbury
Murder

Compton Packenham
Francis Rattenbury
Orderly
Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service
First World War
Croix de Guerre
née
English-Canadian
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
First World War
War Office
First Battle of the Somme
Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service
Croix de Guerre
Compton Packenham
Francis Mawson Rattenbury
celibate
W. G. Grace
Prince Rupert, British Columbia
Kamloops
Toronto
soloist
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Eric Alexander, 5th Earl of Caledon

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