From the Sunday Times 50 years ago

AT dawn on Thursday, Frederick John Harris was executed in Pretoria for the murder of Mrs Ethel Rhys, 78, in the Johannesburg station bomb explosion . . .

Now in her own statement . . . 26-year-old Ann Harris speaks of her last hours with her husband and her life with him . . . because she wants the facts, as she sees them, to be made known: “People ask me if I will change my name, but I will not. I was the wife of John Harris, for better or for worse . . . I will not desert himnow . . .

“I love him still. I will always remember my last visits when we stood in a small room in the Pretoria jail, two screens of mesh between us. We felt so close it did not matter that I could not even hold him when we said goodbye and there were two warders beside us.”— April 4 1965