Mary Pearsey's Perambulator
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2024
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Episode 244 tells of a murder in Victorian London so vicious and violent and ghastly that some people believe to this day that the perpetrator was the infamous Jack the Ripper--or Jill the Ripper, as it were, for this brutal murder of a mother and her babe fell squarely upon Mary Eleanor Wheeler Percy, who will pay dearly for her crime.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:03.0 | Greater London, England |
| 0:13.0 | October 26, 1890 |
| 0:18.0 | It appears certain that the woman was not killed upon the spot where her body was discovered. |
| 0:25.6 | Crossfield Road, Hampstead, is a quiet road in a rather aristocratic part of the suburb of London. |
| 0:32.6 | Just beside where the body was found, some new houses are in course of erection. Here, the pathway is not |
| 0:40.3 | well defined, and in some places it is covered with rubbish. On the opposite side of the road are two |
| 0:46.6 | gardens. The spot is midway between two lamps, which are about 200 yards apart, and therefore it is very dark. Mr. Summerland |
| 0:57.6 | McDonald of Belsize Park, who made the shocking discovery, gave the following account. |
| 1:04.1 | I am 19 years of age and am engaged at a company's office in the city. On Friday night, |
| 1:09.9 | I returned from the city to Swiss |
| 1:11.7 | Cottage Station, arriving there I should think at 7 o'clock. I was walking home, intending |
| 1:17.6 | afterwards to go to Haverstock Hill, so I made haste, when I saw something lying in the |
| 1:23.2 | Crossfield Road, Eton Avenue. At first I did not take any notice, thinking it was a drunken |
| 1:29.5 | woman, but on returning to go to Haverstock Hill, I saw the same object there. The top part of the |
| 1:36.2 | body was covered over by a piece of a jacket. It was very dark and the moon was not out, so I could |
| 1:42.2 | not make out what it was. |
| 1:44.6 | I went to look for a policeman, but not seeing one, I proceeded to Swiss Cottage |
| 1:49.6 | station, where I told a policeman and a constable returned with me and asked me to go for |
| 1:55.3 | Dr. Poulet Wells, which I did, and he came back with me. |
| 2:00.5 | Dr. Wells then said he thought she had only been dead |
| 2:03.1 | a few minutes. Now I think of it, it was seven o'clock when I arrived from the city at Swiss |
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