The 1903 hanging of the 'Finchley Baby Farmers' at Holloway Prison, 'Le Petit Parisien' supplement, dated 22nd February 1903
The 1903 hanging of the 'Finchley Baby Farmers' at Holloway Prison, depicted on the back cover of 'Le Petit Parisien' supplement, dated 22nd February 1903. One of the more horrific crimes of the late Victorian age, Amelia Sach and Annie Walters ran a 'lying-in' house and adoption agency that fully exploited the obsessive avoidance of scandal prevalent at the time. Preying mostly on domestic servants not wanting to bring shame upon their household and/or unable to support a baby, the two women vanished away an unknown quantity of babies—evidence suggested dozens—by poisoning or smothering. One of the two executioners was Henry Pierrepoint, father of Albert Pierrepoint who became Britain's most famous hangman during the 20th Century.
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