The Life and Trial of the Four Prisoners Connected with the Penge Murder, 1877
The life and trial of the four prisoners connected with the Penge murder. Summing up! Verdict! Sentence! And interesting particulars never before published, with large and correct portraits. "Police News" ed. 16 pp. (London, 1877).
About the Case
In mid-April 1877, Harriet Richardson was found dead of starvation in Surrey, England. Two years earlier, Louis Staunton, an auctioneer’s clerk, who was twelve years her junior, had romanced and married Harriet—who was considered to be “weak” in intellect but stood to inherit a large sum of money—over her mother’s objections. Harriet and Louis soon had a son, even though Louis was conducting an affair with Alice Rhodes, the sister of the wife of Louis’s brother Patrick. At trial, Louis Staunton, Alice Rhodes, Patrick Staunton and his wife were all found guilty of murder and sentenced to be hanged. Because of doubts about the evidence, the sentence for the Stauntons was commuted to life in penal servitude and Alice Rhodes was given a pardon.
About the Book
The beautiful victim of the Elm City: Being a full, fair, and impartial narrative of all that is known of the terrible fate of the trusting and unfortunate Jennie E. Cramer: Giving all the evidence that led the jury to hold James Malley, Jr. as her murderer, and to denounce Walter E. Malley and Blanche Douglass as aiders and abettors in this terrible social tragedy. Price 10 cents. 64 pp. (New York, 1881).
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