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The Ethel Proudlock case refers to a 1911 shooting by Proudlock, her trial for murder, and the cause célèbre scandalising British colonial society in Kuala Lumpur, Federated Malay States it created.
May 28, 2001 · When Ethel Proudlock left Penang in 1911, she was alone, her husband having been detained in Kuala Lumpur. He had accused the police of testifying against his wife and faced libel charges. It is not known if they ever saw each other again, nor what became of their child.
May 4, 2023 · It was during his visit to Kuala Lumpur in 1921 that the lawyer EAS Wagner told Maugham of the notorious case 10 years earlier, in which he’d defended Ethel Proudlock, the wife of a local...
Jan 1, 2011 · Mrs Ethel Mabel Proudlock shot William Crozier Steward dead on 24 April 1911 in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of the Federated Malay States. She maintained Steward had tried to rape...
Aug 5, 2022 · Ethel Proudlock was a Eurasian woman who was married to William Proudlock, the headmaster of the renowned boys school, the Victoria Institution, in Kuala Lumpur, and the case refers to her trial for murder of William Steward, a mining manager, in 1911.
Jan 26, 2024 · The murder of William Steward by his lover, Ethel Proudlock, on the steps of the headmaster’s bungalow at the Victoria Institution in April 1911, rocked the colonial world of Malaya. It became a cause celebre, immortalised in William Somerset Maugham’s The Letter.
Nov 6, 2023 · Lesley’s tales, as recounted to Maugham, take us back to 1910, when she first read a newspaper report that her friend Ethel Proudlock had been arrested for murder.
Aug 27, 2015 · In the sensational trial that followed Ethel Proudlock, the Eurasian wife of an Englishman claimed that William Steward, a mine manager, had tried to rape her, but the evidence pointed to a passionate affair, and a murder inspired by jealousy.
FCO 141/16214: Singapore: Proudlock case; trial of Ethel Proudlock for murder in Kuala Lumpur; allegations by her husband William Proudlock - migrated archives … Source: The National Archives (United Kingdom)
Aug 27, 2015 · In the sensational trial that followed Ethel Proudlock, the Eurasian wife of an Englishman claimed that William Steward, a mine manager, had tried to rape her, but the evidence pointed to a passionate affair, and a murder inspired by jealousy.
