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A HUGE crowd gathered outside the court on the day Isabella McMenemy was hanged. It was October, 1828 and she was the first woman to face the gallows in Glasgow in more than 30 years. Her crime was to act as a decoy, luring men to the remote towpaths of the city canals, where her husband Thomas Connor, would attack and rob them. The fact that a woman had helped devise this scheme seemed to cause great consternation to the judge, and to city newspapers who ran sensational stories about the pair and their devious deeds. The story of Isabella, known as Bell, is one of many unearthed by Glasgow-born writer and journalist Thérèse Stewart for her book, Scottish Canal Crimes, Murder and Mayhem on Scotland’s Canals 1800-1950.

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