Murderer's Bride
The charlatan Alicks Sly murdered his wife, Ellie, and killed himself with a cut-throat razor in a house in Sydney''s Newtown in early 1904, leaving their children to a wretched fate. He wasn''t the only man to murder his wife - or try - that year. Life in the big city could be harsh and brutal, and so could marriage.
Sociologist Tanya Bretherton traces the brutal story of Ellie, one of several mu...
The charlatan Alicks Sly murdered his wife, Ellie, and killed himself with a cut-throat razor in a house in Sydney''s Newtown in early 1904, leaving their children to a wretched fate. He wasn''t the only man to murder his wife - or try - that year. Life in the big city could be harsh and brutal, and so could marriage.
Sociologist Tanya Bretherton traces the brutal story of Ellie, one of several mu...
