... 1870 Margaret Walters (34) was executed at Horsemonger Lane for the murder of John Walter Cowen, an illegitimate child she had assumed the charge of for a consideration of money at her baby- farming establishment at 4 Frederick Terrace ...
Crime, Death & Debauchery Neil R Storey. BABY FARMING AT BRIXTON On 11 October 1870 Margaret Walters ( aged thirty - four ) was executed at Horsemonger Lane for the murder of John Walter Cowen , an illegitimate child she had assumed the ...
... Murder 21 February 1849 Maria Manning Horsemonger Murder 13 November Lane 1862 Catherine Wilson Newgate Murder 20 October 2) Private Executions 1870 Margaret Walters Horsemonger Murder 11October Lane 1874 Frances Stewart Newgate ...
... Margaret Waters Margaret Waters, aged thirty-four, was charged with five counts of wilful murder of children in the ... Walters. Her case filled the papers in the summer of 1870 with graphic descriptions of how she had poisoned ...
... 1870 , for instance , a baby farmer called Margaret Walters was tried for the murder of 16 infants who had been left in her care ; she was found guilty and hanged . She was not the only one : in that same year 276 dead bodies of infants ...
... Margaret. She was very possibly operating for many years before she came to the attention of the authorities. There will never be an accurate record of the number of her victims although John Walter Cowen was certainly her last. In 1870 ...
... murder had ceased de facto to be a capital offence: the popular view was that a newborn baby should not have the ... 1870, which eventually led to the conviction of sisters Margaret Walters and Sarah Ellis, professional baby ...
A haunting recreation of the brutal death of an American housewife, the conviction of her husband, and the family trial at which their children determined for themselves how their father should be charged.
... Margaret Lentz killed at No. 2542 Sepviva st . by having her throat cut by ... murder of Anthony W. Dealy in the latter part of January , 1884 , was ... Walters died from being stabbed in the head at a house on Sixth st . ab ...