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t time she had been brought to the station without being conveyed on a stretcher it sounds like the same person in this case annie was sentenced to two months in maidstone gaol lloyd s weekly newspaper 7 october 1877 in 1884 the press again reported annie appearing before the greenwich magistrate charged for over the 300th time with being drunk and disorderly after being thrown out of the centurion public house in this case annie s fragile state of mind was apparent when the police inspector spoke he related that annie had tried to kill herself in the cell and had to be monitored as a result annie s response was to retort and i should have done it if i had the chance she was again imprisoned the morning post 13 august 1884 just a year later annie was dead it was not drink that killed her but consumption ending her life in the greenwich workhouse infirmary unusually for a woman in and out of prison her obituary was published in the press in recognition of her notoriety in this case unusually her positive qualities were focused on and the embroidery featured in the museum of london was also reported on in a sympathetic rather than exploitative way the death has just taken place in greenwich union infirmary of annie parker aged 35 sic who has been over 400 times charged before the magistrates at greenwich police court with drunkenness but never with felony and has spent the greater part of her life in prison she was always exceedingly well conducted in prison and shortly before her death sent a letter to mr marsham the magistrate at greenwich police court thanking him for kindnesses and at the same time acknowledging that her life had been misspent she had a luxuriant head of hair and on the morning of her death presented to dr dixon the assistant medical officer of the infirmary a lace bordered sampler on which was artistically worked with her own hair the hymn commencing my god my father whilst i stray another beautiful specimen of her hair work is in the possession of the rev jw horsey for many ears chaplain to the clerkenwell house of detention and a third is framed in the parlour of mr james old king street deptford annie parker had received an excellent education and a bad word never escaped her when before the magistrate on one occasion a lady took her to canada with a view to her reformation but she could never resist intoxicating drink illustrated police news 29 august 1885 this obituary recognised annie s good traits her attitude to others her careful work and her education it even commended her for never committing more serious offences yet there was no attempt to analyse her addiction to the demon drink or to query the system that shuttled annie in and out of prison and the workhouse this was undoubtedly a complex woman with an addiction that could not be simply stopped by the good intentions of a few women a woman who came from a decent background but who could never combat her own personal demons there was undoubtedly more to annie than simply an ability to pull her own hair out to sew with although the question of why she needed to do this is interesting in itself her obituary in the illustrated police news hints at a woman whose life deserves more attention than just a mention of how many offences she was charged with over the course of her short life annie s age was reported differently in different papers as suggested above the newspapers tended to be a bit inaccurate when it came to the personal details of those it wrote about her death certificate gives her age in august 1885 as being 38 years old freebmd deaths sept 1885 greenwich 1d 567 it is also possible that annie herself was unsure of her exact age and gave different ages to the magistrates and police share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x more share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading a short investigation into the crime museum uncovered june 10 2015 june 10 2015 criminal historian the death mask of daniel good executed in 1842 for the murder of his wife photo nell darby the museum of london s major autumn exhibition the crime museum uncovered opens in october the exhibition utilises over 600 artefacts from the metropolitan police s infamous black museum to investigate pardon the pun the history of detective work and the museum over the past two centuries the black museum opened in 1875 but the exhibition provides some context by looking at the longer history of policing in london from the formation of the met under the metropolitan police act of 1829 although its coverage of pre 20th century offences and convictions is necessarily limited by the smaller amount of artefacts in the black museum relating to this period it then covers events up to the 21st century from the krays exploits and espionage in the suburbs to terrorism from the fenians to the 2007 glasgow airport attack i am really looking forward to seeing the exhibition when it opens but have a few reservations about how it presents the artefacts which i have explored in a piece for history today here i m hoping those reservations are unfounded but inevitably any exhibition that looks at crimes from domestic murders to terrorism has to balance the desire to get good footfall with the need to be sensitive about the narrative it explores about crime detection and punishment if you want to get an idea of some of the things that the museum will be showing buzzfeed has perhaps inevitably produced a good list of 21 morbidly fascinating things from scotland yard s hidden museum of crime the death mask of daniel good pictured above will be one of the items on show at the exhibition which opens on 9 october tickets can be purchased here the death mask of daniel good is being exhibited courtesy of the metropolitan police s crime museum new scotland yard and was photographed during the museum of london s media briefing on the crime museum uncovered share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x more share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading breach of promise the case of lily briggs the jilted shopgirl june 3 2015 criminal historian in 1900 lily weston briggs a derby shop assistant became known as the jilted shopgirl in the press after she brought a case alleging breach of promise against a local coppersmith lily and the coppersmith one philip james maskery who worked in business in derby with his father had been courting he was 27 years old at the time she was 25 philip had proposed to lily and she had accepted however there was difficulty in setting a date for the wedding with philip apparently postponing the event eventually he admitted to lily that he was keeping company with another woman reluctant to give up his status as a bit of a lothario philip then insisted that he did want to marry lily she forgave him but then later saw him in a theatre with yet another sweetheart somewhat lacking in chivalry philip then told lily that he wanted to shake his loose leg and therefore wanted to have nothing further to do with her but philip had proposed to lily before and she had accepted his jilting of her amounted to breach of promise their engagement had amounted to a legally binding contract that he would marry her he had failed to keep that contract and so lily immediately went to the derby sheriff s court to complain about maskery s behaviour the jury awarded her 50 for the breach of promise a considerable sum equivalent to around 3 000 today for a shopgirl who lived in the streets and courts around derby s main railway bridge philip did not end up marrying any of the three women mentioned in the newspaper report of the court case in 1901 he was still living at home in agard street derby with his parents and sisters but at the same time lily was also living at home just a few doors away from her unreliable ex and therefore the former couple probably had to continue seeing each other on a daily basis he perhaps resentful that she had cost him money and she resentful of his treatment of her you may think that this was a story that could only have happened to our ancestors but you d be wrong just two years ago an american woman successfully sued her former partner for breach of promise after he failed to marry her and was awarded 50 000 sources lloyds weekly newspaper 18 march 1900 1901 census for 3 agard street derby and 7 agard street derby share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x more share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading the man whose wife had sex with the lodgers may 7 2015 criminal historian in 1900 a pimlico hairdresser and waiter sought a divorce from his wife on the grounds of adultery his wife seems to have been a busy woman she and her husband rented out their spare rooms to lodgers and she was accused of sleeping not just with one but with all three of them the husband ephraim riseley had married emily elizabeth murkett at st john s in fitzrovia on 9 may 1886 ephraim a coachman s son was 23 his bride the daughter of a carpenter was 24 both were originally from huntingdonshire they moved into a house at 15 glasgow terrace in pimlico and had two children edwin ephraim born in february 1889 and may emily born in august 1891 ephraim had been working as a footman and butler since his marriage but wanted to invest for his and his family s future so he took over a hairdressing business they moved to 4 south wharf road in paddington where ephraim installed joel edwards as manager of the hairdresser s renting out one of his rooms to him with the business being run from there the other rooms were taken by lodgers named alfred leaman and mr hammond while edwards was running the hairdresser s ephraim continued to work as a waiter or footman at private functions which often required working through the night into the early hours of the morning on 3 july 1899 when he returned home at 3am after finishing work he found his manager and wife occupying the same bedroom ephraim s divorce petition taken from ancestry he unceremoniously turfed the couple out into the street and when it had reached a more civilised hour lodged a petition for divorce initially he only named joel edwards but then later he requested that he be allowed to amend the petition by adding charges of adultery with both leaman and hammond making it clear that he had never found out or been told the latter s first name he also recorded that he had only been made aware of these offences on 30 july although he didn t note how he had found out or who had told him he alleged that emily had slept with leaman at their house on 29 june 1899 and with hammond on 30 june 1899 at the same address in other words that she had slept with different lodgers on consecutive days both in the marital home it was only edwards though who ephraim thought his wife had regularly slept with the divorce was granted and ephraim was awarded custody of the couple s children as soon as he divorced he married again and in 1911 was living in fulham where he was working as a gentleman s servant his children edwin and may were still living with him together with his daughter mary elizabeth from his second marriage born only a year after his divorce case emily meanwhile so maligned in the divorce case with her response to ephraim s charges unrecorded was not so fortunate for the next decade she eked a living as a charwoman the 1901 census recorded her as married still by 1911 she chose to describe herself as a widow there was no sign of joel edwards or indeed any lodger living with mrs riseley she obviously knew the dangers of having lodgers now sources the national archives divorce case j77 673 454 also on ancestry reynolds s newspaper 18 march 1900 1911 census for 20 burnfoot avenue fulham 1911 census for 42 theobalds road holborn 1901 census for paddington address not visible on census return share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x more share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading the condemned criminal tolerates consolation april 10 2015 april 2 2015 criminal historian the home secretary has issued orders for the execution of bucknell convicted at the late somerset assizes of the brutal murder of his aged grandfather and grandmother at creech st michael s to take place at taunton gaol on thursday morning next the 26th instant the wretched criminal it is said appears extremely callous and to have no conception of the enormity of his guilt he is respectful to the reverend chaplain but seems rather to tolerate than wish for his spiritual consolation and assistance liverpool mercury 23 august 1858 21 year old john baker bucknell was executed at taunton on 26 august he had been convicted of housebreaking in march 1857 and given a 10 month gaol sentence the following year he was convicted of murdering innkeeper john bucknell aged 72 and his wife betsy 74 he was described by the taunton courier of 11 august 1858 as an unfortunate young man share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x more share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading bringing a murderer to life april 3 2015 april 2 2015 criminal historian 1 comment broadside of robert blakesley s execution 1841 look at a criminal broadside from the 19th century there are the drawings generic depictions of people hanging of gaols of crowds together with more personalised portraits of the murderer or the victim there is the text the melodramatic overly detailed story of the crime the penitence of the murderer before he or she is dropped into oblivion these are the forerunner of the tabloid newspaper designed to be bought read thrown away but now they are in museums sold in auctions a historical artefact the individuals that are written about in these broadsides are somehow lost to us in the present they are abstract viewed from a historical distance fictionalised by their broadside producing contemporaries i own a broadside and admit to being fascinated by the stories they tell and how they tell them but can i build a picture of real people living ordinary lives from the dramatised story presented on this sheet of paper my broadside is from 1841 it relates to the execution of robert blakesley after being found guilty of the murder of james burdon in the city of london it s not the only broadside produced about blakesley the briti...
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