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MURDER

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1)
In Bodmin, England, in 1821, Elizabeth Commins was hanged for the crime of infanticide. She had been placed in service with a respectable family and after having been taken advantage of she found that she was pregnant.
Not being able to find any help she kept the pregnancy a secret until when the pain started and she gave birth to a baby boy in a cow shed.
However, once the infant began to cry she smashed the child's head against the wall, killing it. She was eventually found sitting in the cowshed staring at the dead baby.
She was shown no mercy in court and hanged, her body later used for dissection.

2)
In Bristol, England, in September 1764, seasoned criminal Edward Higgins robbed and killed two women. The victims were Frances Ruscombe and her maid Mary Champneys.
Frances's head was so badly beaten that she lost an eye and parts of her skull were found embedded in her brain.
Mary received such a terrible blow that it split her head apart almost severing it from her body.
Higgin's totally protested his innocence until the eve of his execution.

3)
In Dorchester, England, in 1705, Grocer's wife Mary Channing was convicted of poisoning her husband because she felt no affection for him after being forced into marriage.
After being tried she was sentenced to death and executed in the old Roman ampitheatre.
She was dragged screaming her innocence, to the centre of the stadium and then strangled and burnt.

4)
In Exmoor, England, during the 1850's, William Burgess told his landlady that he had sent his 8 year old daughter, Anna, to live with her grandmother in Porlock, after his wife had recently died and he was finding it hard to make ends meet.
The landlady became suspicious however after she found some half burnt clothing and reported it to the authorities.
Burgess had fled though but he was soon caught and arrested and languished in jail protesting his innocence.
Since no actual body had been found it looked likely that Burgess would be released when it was reported that a strange flickering light could be seen over an old mine shaft.
Local people were convinced this was a sign of where the young child's body was buried and sure enough when the mine was drained her tiny corpse was found.
In 1859, after being found guilty of murder, Burgess was publicly hanged in Taunton.

5)
In London, England, in 1875, Henry Wainwright murdered his mistress Harriet Lane, covered her body in quicklime and buried it in his warehouse in Whitechapel.
Later when Wainwright lost all of his money he had to sell the warehouse but fearing the body of Harriet would be discovered he dug her up but was horrified to find that the body was perfectly preserved and was not a skeleton as he expected.
Wainwright then chopped the body up and wrapped them up into two neat bundles. He then asked his employee, Stokes, to carry the bundles while he fetched a cab, but Stokes smelt something rotting and looked into the bundles.
Wainwright managed to escape in the cab with the bundles and Stokes gave chase.
When Wainwright took the bundles into his brother's pub, Stokes was ahead of him waiting with a police officer.
Wainwright was later hanged.

6)
In London, England, in 1758, Sarah Metyard and her daughter, also named Sarah, cruelly mistreated their servants and when one of them, Anne Naylor, particularly angered the pair, they fastened her hands together and then tied her to a door knob where she could neither stand up properly or lie down, and then left her to starve to death.
They concealed the body in a box in the attic but the smell of the rotting corpse forced the pair to dismember the corpse and flush it down the sewer.
However this did not work so they buried the body parts in the mud surrounding the gratings.
Their crime was eventually discovered when young Sarah confessed everything to a friend.
Both women were tried and hanged.