Henry Wainwright

Henry Wainwright

Henry Wainwright (died 21 December 1875) was an English murderer.

Wainwright was a brushmaker who murdered his mistress Harriet Lane in September 1874 and buried her body in a warehouse he owned. When he was declared bankrupt the next year, he disinterred the body in September 1875 and attempted to rebury it with his brother Thomas and another brushmaker, Alfred Stokes. Stokes was suspicious of the contents of the parcels he had been given to carry, and opened one, revealing human body parts, which he immediately reported to police. The crime was given more publicity at the time than those of Jack the Ripper. Henry and Thomas were tried at the Old Bailey before Sir Alexander Cockburn and found guilty: Henry of murder and Thomas of being an accessory after the fact. Henry Wainwright was sentenced to death and hanged by William Marwood on 21 December 1875.

References

• Flanders, Judith (2011). The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime. HarperCollins Publishers Limited. pp. 338-343. ISBN 0007248881.
• Gray, Drew D. (2010). London's Shadows: The Dark Side of the Victorian City. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 23. ISBN 1847252427.
• Smith, Frederick John; Taylor, Alfred Swaine (1920). Taylor's principles and practice of medical jurisprudence, Volume 1 (7th ed ed.). Taylor & Francis. p. 218.
• Wiener, Martin J. (2004). Men of blood: violence, manliness and criminal justice in Victorian England. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521831989.

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