I can't say, Gary.
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Pennington St. in Old Bailey Cases 1880-1895
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Originally posted by Anna Morris View PostThink there are one or two more. Here goes...
Ah, yes, 97 Pennington Street, however that fits in...
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The other interesting tidbit in the Colman case is that Hilda Poppie had insured her life and assigned the policy to Hermann Gunther. The only witness to her killing was Martha Powell, whom Agnes Davy stated had lived with Gunther at 5, Artichoke Hill, the pair of them them sleeping in the front parlour there. Both Powell and Gunther denied this.
Colman claimed to have been drugged and said there were both men and women in the room when the incident occurred.
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Originally posted by Robert Linford View PostExtremely interesting, Gary. But how much would such a policy be worth? I don't suppose she could have paid much into it.
What benefit would there have been to Poppie to do so? Although, according to Powell, Poppie was not paid, but was allowed to fleece the customers, so she could have afforded to. Poppie was allowed to rob Powell's guests blind and keep the proceeds. Powell was unaware that there was a ready supply of whisky in her own house.
So, to recap: no. 5 was a brothel run by Powell. Agnes Davey who had lived there some time previously said the establishment had then been run jointly by Powell and Gunther and they had both slept in the front parlour. They were at pains to deny this, although Powell was quite happy to admit the house had been run as a brothel for 4 years and Gunther admitted having been charged with running no. 5 as a brothel. It was supposedly Poppie who got the clients drunk and stole their money. Poppie, out of the goodness of her heart no doubt, took out an insurance policy in favour of Gunther - the man who did not have a professional or personal relationship with her employer.
It all stacks up (like a pile of last week's herrings).
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Originally posted by Gary Barnett View PostAnd perhaps the strangest thing of all is Colman insisting on shaking hands with Gunther and his son before the police carted him off.
If it wasn't for the fact that Fred (The Weasel) Wensley was involved, I might suspect there was something suspicious about it all. ;-)The wickedness of the world is the dream of the plague.~~Voynich Manuscript
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Originally posted by Robert Linford View PostHi Gary
In 1901 he is listed as Harry and he's at 4 Beccles St, the house of what looks like the two marriage witnesses, John and Maria Brown.
I'll take a look at the German name - probably Von Klinkerhofen or something.
I found Mathilde (Matilda) Thorsen, Brescher’s first wife, in Ship Alley in 1891. She was, therefore, almost certainly a Highway unfortunate. I’ve sent off for her death cert. Given Brescher’s previous, I’m a bit suspicious of her dying just a few months are they married.
I wonder what happened to John Miller, Brescher’s landlord at 79, Pennington Street in 1891. He had been at the address in 1881 and it had the appearance of a brothel then.
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