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stablished that the case was both fully proved and came within the remit of the new statute alderman thompson regarded it as a very aggravated case because thomas repeatedly carried on his activities night after night and therefore sentenced him to the maximum penalty the 1824 vagrancy act allowed three months of hard labour in the house of correction source the times 30 june 1834 page 3 old and new london volume 1 cassell petter and galpin london 1878 pp 182 199 via british history online 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 what an ass goodyer long who had sex with a donkey and lived to tell the tale june 17 2015 june 12 2015 criminal historian poor goodyer long not just saddled with that name but also saddled appropriately with a rather unpleasant conviction that of bestiality with a female ass bestiality was not that unusual an offence in the 18th and early 19th centuries with criminal records detailing many cases but usually involving boys in their teens or early twenties trying to find an outlet for pent up sexual desires however in the 1830s there seems to have been several cases involving older men that were viewed less sympathetically than those involving the young one 57 year old man was executed in bodmin in 1834 for the offence and several other men were convicted at exeter around the same time goodyer was not a young man with no other way of dealing with his sexuality he was a married man in his late 50s but still he was convicted of this capital offence on the clearest evidence at the lent assizes in norfolk on 8 april 1837 and duly sentenced to death the judge stated that he held out no hopes of mercy he was due to be executed on 29 april but instead was sent to the prison hulk york where with the exception of one indifferent muster he conducted himself well one would think that his offence would quickly alienate him from his local community who would want to stick up for a man who stuck well never mind the rest of that sentence yet the community did rally round goodyer 29 inhabitants of the villages of fundenhall and tacolneston listed as tawlnestone including the rector and churchwardens as well as the delightfully named righteous reeve signed a petition to argue that he should not be executed his wife listed as mary long actually maria nee andrews and sister mary filby also signed the petition and stuck by him why did they think he deserved clemency they actually tried several tacks he was usually of good character he was a drunk who after a few didn t know what he was doing even when an ass of any kind was involved there was nobody at his trial to support him his age was a mitigating factor and lastly the killer tack he may have been suffering from insanity the prison ship or hulk york where goodyer long was sent the petition and the varied reasons for mitigation worked on 21 april a week before he was due to be hanged goodyer s sentence was reduced to transportation for life but again he was sent back to the prison hulks he was received on the leviathan which had previously seen battle at trafalgar at portsmouth on 1 june 1837 and then on 14 april 1840 he was transferred to the hulk york in gosport where it seems he served three years living alongside some 500 other convicts on the ageing ship he was never transported perhaps surprisingly to modern eyes on being discharged from the hulk goodyer returned to norfolk with few resources and a criminal record he may have had little alternative in 1851 he was in his home parish of fundenhall aged 72 and in receipt of parish relief living with his wife he died there two years later sources the national archives tna ho 17 75 58 18 april 1837 6 december 1843 the bury norwich post 12 april 1837 1851 census for mill road fundenhall norfolk via the genealogist bmd deaths norwich 1853 first quarter 4b 203 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 400 arrests of annie parker newspaper representations of a drunken woman june 11 2015 june 11 2015 criminal historian pin cushion embroidered by annie parker using her own hair c 1879 photo by nell darby yesterday i looked briefly at the museum of london s forthcoming exhibition on london crime the crime museum uncovered one of the artefacts being displayed in this exhibition is a pin cushion embroidered by a woman named annie parker in 1879 a woman notorious according to the museum s publicity material for having been arrested over 400 times for drink related offences and for having embroidered the cushion using her own hair as thread i was intrigued by this simple rendering of annie as a drunk with a penchant for pulling her hair out who was annie really on 2 march 1879 reynolds newspaper reported that an unfortunate 31 year old by the name of annie parker had appeared in court in greenwich accused of being drunk and incapable already the mythologising of annie was underway as the piece on her appearance was titled three hundred times in prison for drunkenness annie was at the time living in the slum area of mill lane in deptford but had previously been rescued by the greenwich branch of the church of england temperance society who had found her a home with a well meaning lady annie had apparently been unable to cope with living with this paragon of virtue and had run away back to her previous life on the night of this particular offence annie had been found by a police constable lying on the pavement at new cross she was so drunk that he had had to transport her to the police station in a cart once there she had started to tear at her own clothes and had actually been charged with this offence too until the police clerk said that it would only be an offence if she was in a workhouse ward presumably because the clothes would have been the workhouse s and that a prisoner could not be charged with tearing up her own clothes in a police cell before the magistrate in greenwich annie heard that she had spent 350 out of the previous 365 days in prison she had been written off by authority the local police inspector said that if she was discharged now she would be in custody again on monday yet annie was suffering she was an alcoholic who probably got more of a sense of security being in prison than ricocheting between workhouse lodgings and the unfamiliar residences of well meaning temperance society members who couldn t possibly know how it felt to need alcohol as annie did in police cells annie complained of suffering and of waking up with water dripping from her hair she was not treated sympathetically there was little the legal system could do for annie either in this case she was simply imprisoned again this time to one month s imprisonment with hard labour it was noted in the press that the 300 prior convictions mentioned had all been cases heard at greenwich whether an additional 100 took place elsewhere or after this one conviction or whether there was an element of hyperbole in the reporting of her life is not clear what was significant is that annie was never out of prison more than two or three days this annie may have been the same woman mentioned in a press report in 1875 although her given age was wrong in this case a 40 year old named annie parker came before the greenwich magistrates accused of drunkenness and breaking a pane of glass in the window of the deptford police station in this case it was reported that annie had only left maidstone gaol on saturday last after undergoing a month s imprisonment for drunkenness and that at the police station whilst waiting for a charge against her to be taken she remarked that was the first 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 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