1901: George Parker, drunk marine
Add comment March 19th, 2018 Headsman
From John Sadden’s Portsmouth Book of Days (via):
Elizabeth Rowland, of Prince Albert Street, Eastney, Portsmouth, received this letter [on January 19, 1901] from 22-year-old George Hill [George Parker], whom she had been seeing while her soldier husband was serving in India.
Hill was a marine at Eastney Barracks until he was convicted of stealing there.
He was later arrested for murdering a man on a train during an armed robbery.
Dearest Lizzie,
It makes my heart bleed, as I am writing these few lines, to think I shall never see you again, and that you will be alone and miserable now … I always loved you dearly … I am truly sorry and penitent for having, in an evil moment, allowed myself to be carried away into committing murder.
I went and purchased a revolver so that when I came down to Portsmouth I could end both our lives if I had not been successful in obtaining money from my father.
I know you were not happy at home, nor I either, for I have been very unhappy of late, mostly on account of the false charges brought against me at the barracks.
I shall get hung now. I believe I was mad; I know I was drunk.
God help me!
My days are numbered, but I will bear it unflinchingly.
Your broken-hearted sweetheart,
Geo H Hill
Hill was hanged at Wandsworth Prison on March 19, 1901
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Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,England,Execution,Hanged,Murder,Soldiers,Theft
Tags: 1900s, 1901, adultery, alcohol, george hill, george parker, love triangle, march 19, wandsworth prison
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