An 1849 report of the trial of Marie Manning (1821 1849) who was a Swiss domestic servant who was hanged on the roof of London's Horsemonger Lane Gaol on 13 November 1849, after she and her husband Frederick George Manning were convicted of the murder of her lover, Patrick O'Connor a gauger (tax collector).The case became known as the Bermondsey , the Bermondsey Murders or the "Bermondsey Horror", the first time a husband & wife were executed together in England since 1700. Novelist Charles Dickens attended the public execution and wrote of his disgust of the spectacle.

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