Charles Booth, Life and Labour of the People in London 3.4 Religious Influences: Inner South London 1902 (orig. 1891)
The map shows
Lucey Road (both sides) : Poverty & Comfort (mixed)
George Row (E side : Poverty & Comfort (mixed)
George Row (W side) : Moderate poverty
Bedford St (both sides) : Fairly comfortable
See DNB 1970-1980, Who Was Who 1916-28 etc.
First Baronet: Sir John Leslie of Glaslough Co Monaghan, 223 Manchester Square, d. 23.1.1916
Second baronet: Sir John Leslie b. 1857 d 25.1.1944: 46 Gt Cumberland Place and later Glaslough.
Third Baronet: John Randolph ‘Shane’ Leslie b. 1881 at Stratford House in London. Boyhood spent in Ireland. Mother Leonie Blance. Became RC and Irish Nationalist, renounced estates.
Jeffs, Frank George, Marquis of Granby PH High Street
Country of Surrey Detailed Return of Fully-Licensed Houses and Beer Houses [printed book in the Surrey History Centre]
February, 1892...
[No] 48 [Parish] Epsom [Sign and Situation of Each Licensed House] Marquis of Granby, High-Street [Fully Licensed] Yes [On and off Off Whether licensed prior to 1869] ... [dots in original] [Name and Address of Owner] The Nalder & Collyer Brewery Co., Ltd., Croydon [Name of Lessee if any] George Jeffs [Name of licensee and whether Residing on Premises] Nalder & Collyer Brewery Co., Ltd.[Whether free or tied and if latter to what Brewery Company Accommodation for Travellers and other Persons requiring refreshment other than drink Provision of stabling distance from two nearest Licensed Houses, with nature of license of each House] ... [in original] [REMARKS: Inter alia, the character of the persons frequenting each house] Tradesmen and servants
Surrey History Centre
QS5/10/3 (1805-1814)
1813...Lambeth...Joseph Neale
No other Neal(e)s were victuallers in the historic county of Surrey between 1810 and 1814
QS5/10/4 (1815-1824)
1816...Saint Saviour...Neal - Robert
1817...Bermondsey...Neale - Jonathan
No other Neal(e)s were victuallers in the historic county of Surrey between 1815 and 1817.
Metropolitan Archives LV/15/4
Middlesex, A Register of all the Inn keepers and Alehouse keepers Recognizances taken at the General Meeting of the Justices acting in the Division of New Brentford in the Month of September 1815 and at the several Special Meetings of the said Justices held in and for the said Division since that time...
Isleworth...
Neill Thomas.......Royal Oak
[In 1814 and 1813the Royal Oak was run by James Thompson. Thomas Neill is not listed as a licensed victualler anywhere in modern North London in 1813 and 1814 (LV/14/1 - LV/14/9, LV/13/1, LV 13/3 - LV13/8; Edmonton, Gore (Edgware), Kensington (blank in 1814), New Brentford (blank in 1814), Staines, Uxbridge (incomplete in 1814).]
LV/16/5
September 1816...
Isleworth...
Neill Thomas.......Royal Oak
LV 16/4
Middlesex, A Register of all the Inn keepers and Alehouse keepers Recognizances taken at the General Meeting of the Justices acting within the Division of Kensington in the Month of September 1816 and at the several Special Meetings of the said Justices held in and for the said Division since that time...
Chelsea...
Reeves James.....) Three Crowns
Neil, Thomas......)
...
Hammersmith...
Neale, Samuel....Plough and Harrow
LV17/4
September 1817...
Chelsea...
Neall Thomas......Three Crowns
....
Hammersmith...
Neale Samuel.....Plough and Harrow
LV 18/6
September 1818...
Chelsea...
Neal Thomas...Three Crowns
...
Hammersmith...
Smith John......Plough and Harrow
LV 19/4
September 1819...
Chelsea...
Neal Thomas.....Three Crowns
...
Hammersmith....
Smith John....Plough and Harrow
LV 20/5
September 1820...
Chelsea...
Thomas Neal.......Three Crowns
LV 21/3
September 1821...
Chelsea...
Neal Thomas......Three Crowns
Pigot and Co.’s A Directory of London and its Suburbs...1839
Neale Thos. Three Crowns P.H. 4 Royal Hospital row, Chelsea
Neale, Thomas, Three Crowns P.H. Grosvenor Row, Pimlico
p. 318 Jews’ Row, Chelsea Now called Queen’s road east
p. 451 Queen’s road east Chelsea...
4 Three Crowns, Thomas Neale
[Lancashire Record Office QSP 2795/157]
Lancashire Kirkdale Sessions 4th February 1822
Inquisitions taken by and before Harvey Wright Gentleman one of his Majesty’s Coroners for the said County since the time of the last Kirkdale Sessions on view of the several dead Bodies on the Days and at the Places hereinafter mentioned for which he now applies to the Court to have the usual Allowance.-
...16 [Miles] No 31 7th January [1822] At Adlington of Peter Valentine who died by the Visitation of God [£] 1.2.0
Gaskell, Joseph, Insurance Agent, 24 Twist Lane [but not 1905]
Dickinson, John, Insurance Agent, 138 Oxford Street
Martock 82390
14 Chester Road
Martock
Somerset
24/6/95
Dear Judith
Was very pleased to get your letter, & I
find it very interesting that you & Philip are compiling a family tree, I remember
saying to my young brother Ted what about us doing just that, he said don't you think that
the ones we know about bad enough without going any further but I think he was quite
interested & so was I. With regards my Father, strange to say I know very little of
his family, his Mother died & left him & his sister when they were very young, his
Father married again. I know that he worked at the Docks which was really hard, & I
always imagine my Father had a very hard childhood, he joined the army, my Mother was a
childrens nurse to a army Captain (a high rank in those days) the regiment was s[t]ationed
in Ireland, my Father was the Captains bat man & that was how they met. (Captain
Armatage & his wife alway sent a Xmas card to my parents for years, the son that my
Mother had charge of was called Edward, that my brother was called after. My Mother and
Father were married on 6th June 1903 at Wellington Som Parish Church, my Father was then
at the British Thompson Houston [?] Engineers Rugby, now G.E.C. he was there until about
1920 when we came to London, & was with them all his working life he must have had a
good brain to have been on the office staff all those years & I have soome letters
from the firm speaking very highly of him, at home he was very difficult & very
strict, but that may have been through lack of education & frustration. My Mothers
Fathers family came from Yorkshire, I understand in the wool trade, he worked for Fox
Brothers (West of England Serol [?]) I loved my Grandparents, my Grand father Charles
Gough or Goff (there was som spelt it one way & others the other) was one of natures
Gentlemen, my Grandmother was called Elizabeth Vickery, & was born I think at Sampford
Arundle Som I remember her telling me she remembered walking through the White Ball tunnel
when they where doing the Great Western Railway line. My Mother said that my Grandmothers
Father was employed on the farm & married the daughter, much against the parents
wishes who were calld Howe, my Mother could remember her, she said she was a wonderfull
needle woman, she did all those little tucks on gentlemens shirts by hand of course to
supplement their income.
Well this is all I can add to the Neal family tree, poor but honest
& hardworking !!!
Nice of you to send me a postcard while on holiday, kept you all feel the benefit, &
that you are all happy & well, any time you would like to come down, we shall always
be pleased to see you, & that you can understand this creed, I'm much better talking
than writing
My love to you all
Auntie Trix
My Mother was born Sept 3 1873
Grandma [Nora Evelyn Adams] had an 'Uncle' Fred who lived near Oxhey Ave in Bushey: he was
possibly a second cousin of hers. David Neal's godfather was Cecil Bowman of Wellington, a
close friend of Clifford Neal from school - he may have lodged with the Bowmans. Grandma
had a first cousin called Cecil 'Pooyan' [spelling not known] who she was very fond of and
who died in World War II in the RAF, possibly as a fighter pilot. She looked him up in the
book of remembrance in Westminster Abbey.
The Adams lived at 12 Oxhey Ave.
The Neals live at 32 Chester Road.
Grandpa [Clifford Neal] served in the war. He was in his 30s and jumped before he was
pushed. He joined the Met Service in about 1943, trained [where is not known], went to RAF
Benson, probably HQ of 2 Group, Tactical Air Force. David Neal and his mother went to see
him in May 1944 and were caught in a 7 week clampdown on movement south ot the Thames.
When Brussels was liberated he was sent there. Demobbed in the summer of 1946 with 6 or 8
weeks demob leave. Want back to the Town Hall in Luton where he had been before.
He attended Wellington School and probably left at 16. Worked for Watford Borough Council
and from the mid-1930s Luton Borough Council, each time in financial services. Married
1936 and lived at Winefrid Ave Luton, then moved to Piggots Hill Lane in 1938.
Grandpa Adams [i.e. Arthur Ernest, grandfather of David Neal] had a car in the 1920s or
1930s and the family stopped at a pub in Ewelme. The landlord was called Jeffs and proved
to be a distant cousin, long lost track of. Probably an uncle or cousin of David Neal's
grandmother.
Thomas George Neal's first wife Amelia died young. He remarried and gave the younger
Thomas George Neal two stepbrothers. They went to Australia (presumably as young men). We
know of them because they sent food parcels to David Neal's grandparents after the war.
They were unmarried and lived on a station near Brisbane. They probably died in the 1950s.
Thomas Neal son of Thomas and Amelia Neal was the eldest son of his father.
Douglas Adams. His job at Tate and Lyle after the war was fixed up by a 'Pooyan'. he
fought in Italy with a tank or artillery regiment and was caught in a minefield. He got
the Military Medal for rescuing a man under fire. He had been unstable before the war and
took the brunt of his parents' unhappy marriage. His mother commandeered the medal and
kept it in her deedbox. He got it back at her death but it was not found when he
died.Grandma [Nora Adams Neal] suspected he gave it away or pawned it.
Samuel Adams was the butler of the Leslie family of County Monaghan (well known for the writer Shane Leslie). Arthur Adams was a playmate of Shane Leslie when they were young boys.
On a visit to Trixie Neal after she wrote the above letter, she said that her
grandfather Neal was 'a rotter from Lincolnshire'. The Goughs were descended from a
family of Yorkshire wool buyers. The variant spelling of the surname had to do with
a man (a brother of Annie Gough?) who inherited a house in Wellington and evicted his
sisters. Vickery who made the unsuitable marriage to a landowner's daughter was a
gamekeeper.
She told me (Philip Neal) that her parents met when Arthur Ernest Adams went to Epsom races with his brother. They were caught in a shower of rain and took shelter in the Marquis of Granby, where Arthur met Mary Jeffs. The other brother was supposed to have married as a result of the same incident. She denied that her parents were unhappy but David Neal is certain that they were (she was not fond of her mentally troubled brother). She recalled the death of her sister Eileen, of illness during the First World War. Arthur Adams was called off a troop train departing from London so he could go to the funeral. Samuel Adams attended the funeral. He was an old man with a white beard. Samuel Adams was an Englishman who happened to live in Ireland with his employers.
The three Jeffs girls lived in Eton Villas, Alexandra Road. Arthur and Mary met sheltering from rain there during a race meeting. Fred married another of the sisters giving Nora a double cousin.
The children of Samuel Adams were
1. David
2. Arthur
3. Fred
4. Ethel
The boys were all bank clerks.
Charles Jeffs had three daughters and (probably two) sons. The eldest son (Charles) got the pub. He married a girl called May.
Eileen Adams died of measles in World War One when Nora was three. The day Arthur returned to the war.
It was Clifford Neal’s brother who went to Australia.
Mrs Neal,
"Croyde"
Piggottshill Lane,
Harpenden,
Herts
60 Mandeville Houses,
Liverpool Rd,
Islington,
London N.1.
30.9.40
Dear Mrs Neal,
I hope you are all well as I am at present. Please will you send my ration book and Identification to this address, because the food office want them as soon as posible. Will you please pack the clothes of mine that you still have there, also my white towel with the blue edge, as I didn’t take it away with me. My brother will be caling for the clothes and bike very soon.
I think this is all, so good-bye and good luck to the three of you.
Betty xxxx
Mrs Neal
Croyde
Piggottshill Lane
Harpenden
Herts
60 Mandeville Houses
Liverpool Road
London N1
7-10-40
Mrs Neal
It is now two weeks since my daughter Betty left your house
My wife called on you on Saturday 28 Sept and also my daughter has wrote you since re her Identification Card and ration book which has not been received
I do not know under what authority you have retained these cards
Perhaps you would prefer me to call on Mr Neal and the Luton Town Hall for further information I can arrange this if required
H Huffer
Harpenden Urban District Council
22nd October 1940
Mr C.G. Neal
70, Piggottshill Lane,
Harpenden
Dear Sir,
Government Evacuation Scheme
Evacuee - Betty Huffer
Referring to your letter of the 14th instant, I have obtained a report from the Billeting Officer and find that "Betty Huffer and Mavis Lewis, both Myddelton school girls, aged 15, ran away from Harpenden to Bedford after having been reprimanded by their school teachers for going out with soldiers. Mavis Lewis stayed in Bedford and Betty Huffer returned to her parents after the police had found them both in Bedford. The parents were notified by the school of what had happened, and the Billeting Officer gathered from Mr Ellis, head teacher, that Mr Lewis was most reasonable and Mr Huffer the reverse. Betty Huffer’s bicycle was left in Harpenden at 24 Masefield Road, where Mavis Lewis had been billeted before she ran away."
The Billeting Officer wrote to Mr Huffer requesting him to collect the bicycle and the same has now been removed. In his reply Mr Huffer acknowledges that he has now received the Ration and Identity Cards.
No doubt Betty Huffer’s parents have been very unreasonable and have caused you considerable trouble and anoyance but, as the reason for her disappearance is clear, I do not think that any good purpose can now be served in pursuing the matter any further.
If, however, you are again approached by them, please let me know and I will deal with them from this office.
Yours faithfully,
Frederick Lewis
Clerk of the Council
Mr A.E. Adams
13 Stockwell Road
SW
Copy
22 Sept 96
Dear Sir
Yours dated 21st inst duly received & I presume you have made a mistake in the name of the young person who has applied you for Sub-Clerkship in your Bank. The name should be Arthur Adams and not William Evans. I have pleasure in stating that young Adams pleased us in every way and were sorry to part with him I can with confidence recommend him as capable industrious & perfectly trustworthy person I consider him of good promise
Yours truly
William Evans
Harvey Esprey (?)
Hughes Glyn Mills Currie & Co
London
THE COURT OF PROTECTION
(formerly the Management and Administration Department)
53 Vic. c. 5
AND AMENDING ACTS.
1954 No. 972
WEDNESDAY the 28th day of APRIL 1954
IN THE MATTER OF DOUGLAS FREDERICK ADAMS
MR. PHILLIPS
UPON THE APPLICATION of Nora Evelyn Neal of 70 Piggottshill Lane Harpenden in the County of Hertford married woman sister of the above named Patient Douglas Frederick Adams
AND UPON READING the evidence specified in the Schedule of Evidence
I DO ORDER as follows:-
1. The said Nora Evelyn Neal is appointed Receiver of the income of the Patient with such additional powers only as may be expressly conferred upon her by the following paragraphs of this Order or by the terms of any subsequent Order of Authority issued under the seal of the Master
2. As from the date hereof the net income of the Patient is to be applied in providing him with extra comforts so far as he is capable of enjoying the same and any income not required for that purpose is to be dealt with in such manner and for such purpose as the Master shall direct
3. The Receiver is authorised in the name and on behalf of the Patient to receive and give a discharge for:-
(a) All benefits to which the Patient is entitled under the National Insurance ACt 1946 and for that purpose to make immediate applicatin for payment (accompanied by an Office Copy of this Order) to the Local Office of Her Majesty’s Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance
(b) All dividends interest and income and all arrears thereof respectively to which the Patient is or may become entitled and also to receive all notices affecting the Patient or his property
(c) The sum of £8.8.4 or other the amount standing to the credit of the Patient on current account at Barclays Bank Limited 137 Brompton Road London S.W.£ which is to be applied as a supplement to the Patient’s income
4. The Receiver is authorised and directed to investigate and report to the Master as to any sums of money loaned by the Patient as to whether any evidence of such loans is available and as to the prospects of recovering such sums
5. The Receier is to account to the Master as and when required and the first of such accounts covering the period of one year from the date of this Order is to be submitted within one month from the end of such period
6. Mary Elizabeth Adams widow mother of the Patient is authorised subject to the directions of the Master to hold for safe custody the wireless set and personal effects belonging to the Patient
7. The Stock and Share Certificates belonging to the Patient are to be deposited in his name with Barclays Bank Limited Harpenden and are to remain so deposited subject to the directions of the Master
8. The reasonable and proper costs of the Receiver of incident to and consequent upon this application are to be taxed and the Receiver is to apply to the Master for directions as to payment of the certified amount thereof
9. The annual fee of £1.0.0 payable in the matter in lieu of percentage is not to be collected unless and until the Master so directs
SCHEDULE OF EVIDENCE
Certificate of Kindred and Fortune dated the 13th March 1954
Medical Certificate (as to lawful detention) dated the 6th March 1954
Certificate of Service dated the 29th March 1954
R.H. FRENCH
Assistant Master
Gaskell - Hull
The Rev. H.H. Clegg was the officiating clergyman at a pretty wedding at King-st Methodist Church, Leigh, on Thursday last week, between Mr. Joseph M. Gaskell, 32, Birley-st., eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Gaskell, and Miss Annie D. Hull, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hull, 27, Langdale-st, Leigh. The service was choral, and the hymns were "Love divine all love excelling" and "O Father all creating". The bride wore a beautiful dress of ivory-brocaded satin marocain with ...tee and girdle, with halo head-... and elaborate net veil. A sheaf ... completed a charming en...
... the bridegroom) were the ...maids, and their dresses were ... green silk, with headdresses to match. Each carried a bouquet of daffodils, and was the recipient of an evening bag, a gift from the bridegroom. The mother of the bride wore a black and floral gown, with coatee and hat to match, and Mrs. Gaskell was attired in a blue silk gown with hat to match.
The bride was given away by her father, Mr. S. Ripley (friend of the bridegroom) and Mr. J. ... (brother of the bride) was ... gentleman.
A reception at the Co-operative Hall was attended by eighty guests, and later the happy pair left for the honeymoon, which is being spent in London and Bournemouth. The bride travelled in a grey coat, with hat and dress to tone.
A large number of presents included a dinner service and barometer from the staff and scholars at King-st. Methodist school, where the bride was a teacher, and a case of fish knives and forks and servers to the bridegroom from the staff at St. Peter’s school, Rochdale.
CM CW HELWAN LES BAINS 15 1612 28
LC. MRS GASKELL 27 LANGDALE ST LEIGH LANCASHIRE
DO NOT WRITE ON MY WAY = JOE GASKELL
ROYAL AIR FORCE
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE AND RELEASE
SERVICE PARTICULARS
Service Number 1063788 Rank Cpl
R.A.F. trade Radar Operator
Air Crew Badges awarded (if any) NIL
Overseas Service Middle East Command, 13.1.41 to 5.4.44
R.A.F. Character Very Good
Proficiency A Satisfactory
" B Satisfactory
Decorations, Medals, Clasps, Mention in Despatches, Commendations etc. Africa Star
Educational and Vocation Training Courses and Results NIL
DESCRIPTION
Date of Birth 19.2.1913 Height 5’8"
Marks and Scars Appendix Scar Operation Scar Left Thigh
Specimen Signature of Airman J.M.Gaskell
of GASKELL, J.M.
The above-named airman served in the RAFvR on full-time service
from 13.8.1940 to 10.9.1945
(Last day of service in unit before leaving for release and release leave).
Particulars of his Service are shown in the margin of this Certificate.
Brief statement of any special aptitudes or qualities or any special types of employment for which recommended:-
Has worked satisfactorily in this section. His previous teaching experience and qualifications were of great advantage to his instructional duties here.
Date 10th Sept. 1945 J.D.B. Huxley
Signature of Officer Commanding
Wing Commander
Rose Hannah Dyson was the eldest child. The others were
Lettie: they never spoke. Judith Gaskell went to school with her grandchildren, not realising this for a long time.
Joe: an epileptic, couldn’t cope, put in a workhouse and died there in his 20s.
Ruth: married an older man who knew he had TB - she caught it from him and died of it.
Annie: killed about 12 years old in a street accident with a horse pulling a milk cart.
Alan: died about 6 months old.
This is what Rose Hannah Dyson told Judith Ann Gaskell on visits to the cemetery.
Joseph Gaskell was the eldest child. The others were:
Walter: married a woman called Agnes, had no children.
Edna: married Bert Brindley, had two boys, Alan and possibly Brian.
Mildred: married Arnold Herbert, children Victor and Diane
Arthur: married Marjorie, two children, Judith Gaskell was their bridesmaid
Billy: married Betty, one daughter, his mother’s favourite. He had a leftover engagement ring which his mother tried to buy from him since she didn’t have one.
Brian: first wife Rita was frowned on for being a barmaid at the Miners’ Welfare.
Donald: married a Catholic, Doris, at St Joseph’s, boycotted except for his mother and Edna, his mother wept throughout, later became quite friendly. Doris looked after Andrew Philip Neal and Ian Graham Neal during Annie Dyson Hull’s funeral. Judith Gaskell said to be like him. A builder or joiner, continued his father’s trade.
Walter may be dead in 1999, the rest are alive.
There was an aunt Annie Battersby on the side of Joseph Gaskell’s mother. It is not known how many brothers William Gaskell had: he was the eldest. Joseph Gaskell never discussed his family. William Gaskell’s youngest (or younger) brother was called Bob: his son Kenny was the same age as Judith Gaskell, went to Bolton School and university.
It was odd to register the birth of John Thomas Rigby at Culcheth, a tiny village on the edge of Chap Moss, not easily accessible from Leigh. Was the unknown father from there?
Rose Hannah Dyson had a cousin Ethel married to a Harry Jones who owned a farm at Shifnal. There were also Britt relations at Badger.
The brothers and sisters of John Hull.
When James Hull died of typhus (not typhoid) in 1903, his widow and children moved to Burnley, nos. 15 and 19 Boundary St.when Judith Gaskell knew them and probably since they moved town. Rachel and Annie lived in one house and Jim and Florrie at the other. Their mill was nearby. There were three Jims who Rose Hannah Dyson called ‘our Jim’, ‘your Jim’ and ‘their Jim’. ‘Our Jim’ was the husband of Edna; ‘your Jim’ was the brother of John Hull, ‘their Jim’ was James Sutliffe, husband of ‘your Jim’s wife Florrie (she was alive in the late 1970s). Margaret the sister of John Hull emigrated to America and ended up in Seattle. Not known when and why. She never came back but wrote regularly. Martin Gaskell thought of visiting her on his trip to Canada in 1964 but in fact wasn’t able to (they heard of it and invited him).
Edna Cannel wife of Jim Hull the brother of Annie Dyson Hull came from the Isle of Man. Rose Hannah Dyson disapproved slightly because this was halfway to Ireland. Jim and Edna married in 1937 a few months after Joseph Malburn Gaskell and Annie Dyson Hull at Leigh Parish Church.
Annie Dyson Hull had one of the Gaskell sisters and Edna the wife to be of Jim Hull as bridesmaids.
John Dyson died about 1939.
Bert Hull, brother of Annie Dyson Hull, died in 1999.
EXECUTION OF A WIFE MURDERER
Thomas Neal, aged 69, who was convicted at the last sessions of the Central Criminal Court of the wilful murder of his wife, Theresa Neal, by cutting her throat in a lodging occupied by them in Islington, was executed on Wednesday morning at 8 o'clock within Newgate Prison. The unhappy woman was only 24 years old at the time she came to her untimely end, and she was married to the prisoner six years ago, when she was only 18 years old, the prisoner being more than 40 years her senior. The marriage turned out a very unhappy one. The prisoner, although ostensibly gaining a livelihood by working as a bricklayer, was, in reality, a brothel-keeper, and very soon after the marriage he appears to have introduced his young wife to that miserable and degrading occupation, and they were turned out of several houses where they carried on their disgusting occupation. The prisoner and the deceased frequently quarrelled, and there was no doubt that the murder was committed from jealousy. On the morning of the murder, while they were alone in the room, the prisoner attacked the unfortunate woman and cut her throat with his pocket knife with which he inflicted such serious injuries that she expired almost immediately.
Since his conviction the prisoner appears to have paid some attention to the ministration of the Rev. Mr. Duffield, the chaplain, but it was only with very great difficulty that any communication could take place between them as the prisoner was so deaf that he could only be made to hear anything that was said by means of an ear trumpet.
Mr. Metcalfe, the acting under-sheriff for the County of London, arrived at the prison shortly before 8 o'clock, and he went to the prisoner's cell, accompanied by Colonel Millman, the governor of the prison. Berry, the executioner, at once proceeded to pinion the prisoner, who did not say a word, while this was being done. He walked to the scaffold without any assistance and the last words he uttered were: "I am sorry I committed the murder, but she was a bad wife to me." A drop of 5ft. was given to him, and death appeared to be instantaneous, no even a vibration of the rope being visible. After hanging an hour the body was taken down, and an inquest was held upon it.
[Kensington and Hammersmith Reporter, Saturday 29 March 1890]