Parts of Sheffield were gang infested slums in the 1920’s, during a time of high unemployment and poverty. 25 year old Lawrence and 23 year old Wilfred Fowler were members of the Park Brigade gang, led by Samuel Garvin, that had been terrorising the East End and Park areas of the city for some time and who considered themselves beyond the … Read more
34 year old Patrick Mahon was a known criminal who had served time for embezzlement and five years for an armed robbery in 1916. He was also a serial womaniser, however his wife, Jessie, had stuck with him since their marriage in 1910. He met 38 year old Emily Beilby Kaye in 1923. Emily was a tall, athletic woman who lived at the … Read more
The Crime Forty-three-year-old Ethel Major poisoned her husband, 44-year-old Arthur, with strychnine on May 24, 1934, at their home at No. 2 Council Houses in Kirkby on Bain, near Horncastle, Lincolnshire. Arthur was a lorry driver and, by all accounts, not a pleasant person—especially when he had been drinking. Early Life and Marriage Ethel Lillie … Read more
Background In 1922, Charlotte met Frederick Bryant, who was eight years her senior. Frederick was serving as a military policeman in the Dorset Regiment. He had served in the army during the First World War and was described as a simple country lad. He immediately fell for Charlotte’s physical charms. When Frederick’s tour of duty … Read more
Early Life and Background Dorothea was born at Hucknall near Nottingham in 1900. After leaving school, she worked in a factory for a while before taking up a post at the Burton-on-Trent Workhouse Infirmary in Staffordshire. Here, she picked up quite a lot of medical knowledge whilst working on the wards and afterwards passed herself … Read more
