Unsolved Female Murders 1891 - 1914

[Uncle Jack]

Just been reading a book called Unsolved Murders In Victorian London by Jonathan Oates. At the end of the book it lists a number of unsolved murders which maybe of interest, not from a Ripper point of view, but from a generally unsolved case side. Anyone got any info on these murders?

EMILY ADAMS, LIMEHOUSE - 4TH AUG 1891
ANN DARBY - 24 FEB 1893
FANNY SAUNDERS - 13 MAY 1893
ELLEN BANCE, VICTORIA PARK - 2 MAY 1893
FLORENCE RALPH, WEST HAM - 2 JULY 1895
ELIZABETH QUICKFALL, GRAND JUNCION CANAL - 16 MARCH 1896
UNKNOWN CHILD, LITTLE MARSHALSEA STREET - 9 APRIL 1897
FLORENCE SAUNDERS, PECKHAM - 22 AUGUST 1897
MARY MARSHALL, BETHNAL GREEN - 22 OCT 1897
BERTHA RUSS, WEST HAM - 27 MARCH 1899
MARY WAKENESS, BRIXTON - 13 MAY 1900
MARY MANBRIDGE, WALTHAMSTOW - 3 AUGUST 1900
MARY HOGG, CAMBERLEY - 1906
ROSSETTA POOK, LEYTONSTOW - 27 AUGUST 1907
FORTONATA MARCHESINA, CLERKENWELL - 14 OCTOBER 1907
ELIZABETH CLARK, BRIXTON - 3 NOVEMBER 1909
EMILY MILLARD, GRAND JUNCION CANAL - 21 JUNE 1914

[sdreid]

Also connected to London, by train for instance, and unsolved to my knowledge:

Elizabeth Camp - 1897 - beaten

Sophia Mary Money - 1905 - beaten

Elizabeth Bailes - 1908 - cut throat

[Uncle Jack]

Will look into those some more Stan. Sound interesting.

[The Station Cat]

I'd be interested to learn more about...

MARY MARSHALL, BETHNAL GREEN - 22 OCT 1897

...if anyone has any further information that they could share.


Just out of further interest, I assume that there were solved murders in Bethnal Green at the same time, can anyone confirm this?

[Harry D]

ELIZABETH QUICKFALL

At least she didn't suffer.

[Parker_Pyne79]

Mary Ann Hogg

Mary Ann Hogg was with her sister when she had her throat cut by a burgler. Her sister was also injured but escaped. That's all I know, I'm afraid.

[miss marple]

Station Cat. Its Margaret Marshall. Thats why you could not find anything.
A brutal murder at 10 Peel Grove Bethnal Green Sept 1897. Margaret Marshall 71 was an elderly lady of means who owned several properties and shares in gas and water companies, lived alone and collected her rents and no friends visited her. On the thursday before her death she was seen in the company of a strange woman. On Friday morning police broke into her house and found her in a pool of blood. She had been stabbed eight times on the left side of her face, the right side battered with a blunt instrament. She was dresses in a skirt bodice and stockings with no clothes below her waist. Nothing was stolen. Two instruments were used one blunt ,one sharp but they were not found.

There was a Mary Marshall murdered at Tynemouth in 1894, stabbed by a soldier.

[John Wheat]

Just been reading a book called Unsolved Murders In Victorian London by Jonathan Oates. At the end of the book it lists a number of unsolved murders which maybe of interest, not from a Ripper point of view, but from a generally unsolved case side. Anyone got any info on these murders?

EMILY ADAMS, LIMEHOUSE - 4TH AUG 1891
ANN DARBY - 24 FEB 1893
FANNY SAUNDERS - 13 MAY 1893
ELLEN BANCE, VICTORIA PARK - 2 MAY 1893
FLORENCE RALPH, WEST HAM - 2 JULY 1895
ELIZABETH QUICKFALL, GRAND JUNCION CANAL - 16 MARCH 1896
UNKNOWN CHILD, LITTLE MARSHALSEA STREET - 9 APRIL 1897
FLORENCE SAUNDERS, PECKHAM - 22 AUGUST 1897
MARY MARSHALL, BETHNAL GREEN - 22 OCT 1897
BERTHA RUSS, WEST HAM - 27 MARCH 1899
MARY WAKENESS, BRIXTON - 13 MAY 1900
MARY MANBRIDGE, WALTHAMSTOW - 3 AUGUST 1900
MARY HOGG, CAMBERLEY - 1906
ROSSETTA POOK, LEYTONSTOW - 27 AUGUST 1907
FORTONATA MARCHESINA, CLERKENWELL - 14 OCTOBER 1907
ELIZABETH CLARK, BRIXTON - 3 NOVEMBER 1909
EMILY MILLARD, GRAND JUNCION CANAL - 21 JUNE 1914

They were obviously all killed by Crossmere

[Mayerling]

Mary Ann Hogg was with her sister when she had her throat cut by a burgler. Her sister was also injured but escaped. That's all I know, I'm afraid.

Odd, the last name "Hogg" is not uncommon (James Hogg was a governor of Texas in the early 20th Century, with a daughter notoriously named "Ima" ; and there was a Scotts author also named James Hogg). But Mary Hogg was also the name of an earlier murder victim - the victim (with her infant child) of her unsuccessful rival for her husband Frank Hogg, Mrs. Mary Eleanor Pearcy, in 1890.

Also curious that the name of the next female victim on that list at the start of this column has the last name "Pook", which was the last name of Edward Pook, suspected of the murder of Jane Clousen in 1871 in Eltham (but acquitted, due to a problem about a key piece of evidence being hearsay).

Jeff

[kjab3112]

Not read the book, but can anyone clarify whether Hogg was Camberley (as posted) which is Surrey or Camberwell which is most definitely London? Parker pyne?