#312 - Frayed Nerves and Bad Guts (‘Annie Leopold’ & Joseph Stoppani, 3 Peter Street, Soho, W1)

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🗓️ 21 August 2025

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EPISODE THREE HUNDRED AND TWELVE: On the morning of 18th of March 1901, having perpetuated a con to make money, the owner of Stoppani's grocer's shop at 3 Peter Street in Soho was again said to be ‘up to his old tricks’, but instead of potentially poisoning almost 10th of Soho’s residents, he unwittingly saved a frail and terrified widow from a violent and bloody death.

Location: ground floor, 3 Peter Street, Soho, London, UK, W1
Date: Monday 18th of March 1901, time unknown, early
Victims: 'Annie Leopold' (exact name unknown)
Culprits: Gustav (surname unknown) and Joseph/Giuseppe Stoppani

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0:00.0	How did a prolific Soho Poisoner save a widow from her cruel death?
0:05.6	Find out on Murder Mile.
0:13.2	Today I'm standing outside of 3 Peter Street in Soho W1.
0:18.4	Wait, isn't that last week's episode?
0:21.6	No. But it's episode? No.
0:22.6	But it's the same building?
0:24.6	Yes.
0:25.6	But there can't be more crimes in the same building, can there?
0:28.6	Oh yes.
0:29.6	As this is where Jean Weston burned to death in a gangland hit, where Jacqueline
0:34.6	Bury was murdered because another prostitute was on holiday,
0:40.8	where the council helped the Camden Ripper find his next victim,
0:47.3	and where a boy's innocent crime led to his death in Australia, coming soon to murder while.
0:53.9	As we know, 3 Peter Street is now a boutique called Supreme, where rubbery little boymen,
0:56.4	who've never shaved, blow a year's wage on clothes too stylish to wear while they're skateboarding.
1:01.9	So instead, they stand on corners, looking constipated, strut like their left leg is far too short,
1:08.7	and have faces like slapped arses.
1:12.5	Since it was built in the 1810s, across the last 210 years, 3 Peter Street has had many incarnations.
1:20.8	It was a pawnbrokers in the 1820s, a dairy in the 1830s, a general store from the 1850s to the 1940s, and from the 1970s
1:30.3	it had been a brothel, a sex shop and a clip joint.
1:33.8	But even though it was a decent establishment for most of this time, even seemingly
1:38.7	respectable businesses have indulged in crime.
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