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Place of Birth: Kingston, Surrey County, Jamaica
About Leslie Hylton
- Leslie George Hylton (29 March 1905 – 17 May 1955) was a Jamaican cricketer, a right-arm bowler and useful lower-order batsman who played in six Test matches for the West Indies between 1935 and 1939.
- In May 1955 he was hanged for the murder of his wife, whom he had shot in a jealous rage a year earlier. Born into poverty, Hylton became a regular member of the Jamaican cricket side from 1927.
- Although overlooked on several occasions for the full West Indies team, he was finally selected in 1935, to face the visiting English touring team.
- He performed well, as part of a trio of fast bowlers that also included Learie Constantine and Manny Martindale, and helped to secure a West Indies victory in the four-match Test series.
- He was chosen again in 1939, for a three-Test tour of England, but was out of form and lost his place in the Test side.
- On his return home he retired from first-class cricket. In 1942 Hylton married Lurline Rose, the daughter of a police inspector.
- A son was born in 1947.
- In the early 1950s, Lurline Hylton's ambitions to be a dress designer led to long absences at fashion schools in New York.
- There, she met up with Roy Francis, a reputed philanderer, and the two began an affair.
- When Hylton learned of this he confronted his wife, and after initial denials she confessed.
- Hylton then shot her seven times.
- His defence of provocation was rejected by the court, which found him guilty and sentenced him to death.
- Legal appeals, and a petition for clemency, proved to be of no avail as the law took its course. Hylton has been generally overlooked in cricket histories.
- The 1956 Wisden included an obituary that contained the date but not the manner or circumstances of his death.
- Many years later an addendum briefly gave the details.
- Later writers have considered the case more sympathetically, and have linked Hylton's treatment to his background of deprivation and to judicial intransigence.
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