PENGE, Royaume-Uni, 15 avril 2012. 'Harriet' par Elizabeth Jenkins à paraître le 19 avril 2012. À l'origine écrite en 1934 et maintenant épuisé il traite de l'affaire du meurtre de Penge de 1877. La photo montre la position de l'enquête originale sur victime, Harriet Staunton, alors le Park Tavern.
4205 x 2793 px | 35,6 x 23,6 cm | 14 x 9,3 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
15 avril 2012
Lieu:
Station Road, Penge, London SE20, England, UK
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Cette image peut avoir des imperfections car il s’agit d’une image historique ou de reportage.
The Penge Murder Case in 1877 was a cause celebre of Victorian Britain. Harriet Butterfield, the victim, was a well-off young woman with learning difficulties. In 1873 she met Louis Staunton who appears to have been a fortune-hunter and who married her in 1875 against the wishes of her mother. By April 1877 both Harriet and the baby to which she had given birth were both dead from starvation, seemingly ignored by her husband, his relatives and mistress who lived with them. Her husband, his lover, brother and sister-in-law were found guilty at the Old Bailey of murder by starvation in September 1877 and sentenced to death. There has ever since been doubt as to whether they were guilty of actual murder or just criminal neglect. A public campaign against the verdict at the time eventually led to Alice Rhodes, the husband's lover being pardoned and the remaining sentences commuted to penal servitude. This decision was important in the setting up of the court of appeal. Louis was finally released from prison in 1897 and married Alice who had waited for him. He died in 1934. This photograph shows the Hollywood East public house in Station Road, Penge, where the first inquest into Harriet's death was held. At that time it was named the Park Tavern.
