Louisa Collins (''née'' Hall; formerly Andrews) 11 August 1847 – 8 January 1889) was an Australian convicted murderer. She lived in the Sydney suburb of Botany and married twice, with both husbands dying of arsenic poisoning under suspicious circumstances. Collins was tried for murder on four separate occasions, with the first three juries failing to reach a verdict. At the fourth trial the jury delivered a guilty verdict for the murder of her second husband and she was sentenced to death. Collins was hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol on the morning of 8 January 1889. She was the last woman to be executed in New South Wales.
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Louisa Collins (''née'' Hall; formerly Andrews) 11 August 1847 – 8 January 1889) was an Australian convicted murderer. She lived in the Sydney suburb of Botany and married twice, with both husbands dying of arsenic poisoning under suspicious circumstances. Collins was tried for murder on four separate occasions, with the first three juries failing to reach a verdict. At the fourth trial the jury delivered a guilty verdict for the murder of her second husband and she was sentenced to death. Collins was hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol on the morning of 8 January 1889. She was the last woman to be executed in New South Wales.
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