By Geoffrey Wright
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths round Southport takes the reader on a sinister trip via centuries of neighborhood crime and conspiracy, assembly villains of all types alongside the best way - cut-throats and poisoners, murderous fans, baby-farmers and baby-killers, burglars, fraudsters and the so-called 'doctor of death'. The e-book documents crime and punishment in Southport in all its stunning kind. one of several acts of wickedness Geoff Wright describes are the shoemaker homicide, the disappearance of Alfred Brewer, the unsolved homicide of William Rhodes, the drugging of Councillor Fletcher, the wife-killing Dr Clements and the baffling homicide of businessman Harry Baker. His chronicle of Southport's hidden background - the heritage this Victorian beach hotel would like to put out of your mind - can be compelling interpreting for somebody who's drawn to the darkish aspect of human nature.
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Edyth died in the autumn of 1920, in Belfast, aged forty-five, with Clements signing the death certificate. After the funeral he sold his practice and moved to Manchester, became a GP, and engaged himself in similar sorts of social circles. He became a freemason, seen in all the best places, and of course, usually escorted by a pretty lady, particularly wealthy widows or daughters of well-to-do parents. In 1921 Clements returned to Belfast to bring back a delicate and attractive daughter of a wealthy Manchester industrialist, who became his second wife during that summer, in Manchester.
When charged and cautioned by the Mayor, Barton said: ‘It was an accident, and I am very sorry that it occurred. ’ All we know after that is that at the Assizes, Barton was acquitted. Chapter 2 The Suave Wife-Killing Doctor The Promenade 1947 This was Southport’s dramatic ‘case of the century’. A nationally known episode of Dr Robert Clements who murdered his fourth wife, Mrs Amy Victoria Clements, then strongly suspected of poisoning his other three wealthy wives. When finally found out, he took the easy way out – poisoned himself.
The coroner also expressed similar criticism of newspapers sending snooping wallet-bulging reporters; he warned the jury, and the public for that matter, that any reports purporting to reflect either his opinion or the opinions of the police, should be totally disregarded until the inquest was over and the verdicts returned. I don’t suppose any of the sub-editors would have been flippant enough to use a Cluedo phrase: Dr Clements; on the Promenade; in the bedroom; with poison! Dramatic evidence that Mrs Amy Victoria Clements and her husband Dr Robert George Clements, both died from morphine poisoning while Dr Houston died from cyanide poisoning, was given by Dr W H Grace, the Home Office Pathologist.