SinisterCrimes

On this day

27 July

  1. 1860

    Magistrates release Constance after a hearing at Road.

    Constance Kent Convicted

    A three-year-old taken from his cot in a Wiltshire country house in 1860. Five years later his half-sister walked into Bow Street and confessed.

  2. 1881

    She marries James Maybrick at St James's Church, Piccadilly.

    Florence Maybrick Disputed verdict

    An American wife, a Liverpool cotton broker who dosed himself with arsenic, and a verdict so doubtful the Home Office reprieved her within weeks.