By Jonathan Goodman, Albert Borowitz
A seasonal present for connoisseurs of precise crimeHere are ten homicide situations of "the out of date sort"—evoking a nostalgia extra evidently linked to fiction—that all happened through the festive interval from mid-December to 12th evening among 1811 and 1933. The settings of those grisly stories variety from the Knickerbocker Athletic membership in long island (where a gentleman named Molineux supplied a drastic remedy for hangovers through placing cyanide in a gift-wrapped bottle of Bromo Seltzer) to an condo in Glasgow (home of a filthy rich Scotswoman whose death looked as if it would were satisfactorily defined via neighborhood constables, till Arthur Conan Doyle assumed the position of Sherlock Holmes) and from a builder's workshop in North London (site of a homicide dedicated via a guy referred to as Furnace, who acceptable his legal motion to his identify) to the stylish residing of a ménage à trois close to the Thames (scene of a complicated poisoning that, years later, Raymond Chandler attempted, unofficially, to...
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The alarm occasioned by the wholesale butcheries which terrorized the East End in the early part of the last century pervaded all classes, and reference to the dread affairs is found in many of the best literary productions of that time. Mention of the murders is to be found in the letters of Charles Lamb, and other celebrated authors of the period testified to the terror inspired by them in all grades of society. Many wealthy families fled from London as from a place of pestilence, and only a widespread rumour — heaven knows how arising — that the miscreant had gone to the provinces induced them to return.
The two women were soon despatched, and then the assassin met Mr Williamson at the top of the cellar stairs and struck him down, afterwards descending to make doubly sure by cutting his throat. A search of the premises was commenced immediately, and it became apparent that the villain had left by the back. The inside shutters of one of the back windows had been taken down, and the sash thrown up, while the sill was marked with blood, as with the print of a hand, and there was blood on the inside iron bar.
He was found guilty of being an accessory after the fact, with the rider of a strong recommendation to mercy, and was sentenced to four years’ penal servitude. While Ball was waiting at Walton to be hanged, he made a full and frank confession of his guilt. One of the things that weighted the balance in Elltoft’s favour was the fact that not a shred of evidence could be adduced to show that he had in any way profited from the death of Miss Bradfield. However, a detective subsequently examining Elltoft’s bedroom had a sudden hunch.