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11. The “Reverend” hides his murdered wife in someone else’s coffin! — The murdering mitten-knitters get their virtue rewarded! — The notorious 1849 Liverpool Lodger murders. (The “Ha’penny Horrors.”)

11. The “Reverend” hides his murdered wife in someone else’s coffin! — The murdering mitten-knitters get their virtue rewarded! — The notorious 1849 Liverpool Lodger murders. (The “Ha’penny Horrors.”)

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SHOW NOTES — for — EPISODE 11 (Season Six) Join host Corinthian Finn, a.k.a. Finn J.D. John 18th Baron Dunwitch,* for a one-hour-long spree through the scandal-sheets and story papers of early-Victorian London! ———— This show cycles through four themes over a monthly cycle, one show per week. This is the SIXPENNY SPOOKIES theme show, featuring a Victorian ghostly shortstory, a chapter of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and other ghostly tales. It will be followed by ...The “Twopenny Torrids” theme episode, coming next Sunday (the fourth Sunday of July);The “Sixpenny Spookies” theme episode, coming two Sundays hence (the first Sunday of August); and finally—The “Graanam Gothics” theme episode, coming on the second Sunday of August. ———— For COMPLETE SHOW NOTES, including art and links to resources, see ⁠⁠pennydread.com/discord.⁠⁠ ———— IN TODAY'S "HA’PENNY HORRORS" EPISODE:01:50: HANGED TODAY IN HISTORY (July 19): On this day, mitten-knitter Sarah Metyard and her daughter Sally were hanged for having murdered two young apprentices by mistreating and starving them to death. To read the Metyard murder story on Executedtoday.com, click here;For a MUCH more detailed and thoroughly sourced version from author C.M. Rosens, click here;Check out C.M. Rosen’s podcast, Eldritch Girl: Weird Gothic Stuff & Nonsense, here.09:40: SWEENEY TODD, THE BARBER OF FLEET-STREET, Chapters 109-111: The Rev. Mr. Lupin disposes of his murdered wife very neatly, if horribly, by stuffing her into one of the coffins in the vaults below his chapel, after stomping the skeleton down to make room for her. Then he turns his attention to Mrs. Oakley. Was she really in a drugged sleep all night, he wonders? If not, must he murder her too? 50:10: HORRID BROADSIDE: “Execution of John Gleeson Wilson at Kirkdale Gaol ...” (1849) Tells the story of the Liverpool Lodger, who took a room in a lady’s residence while her husband was away at sea, then at his earliest opportunity murdered everyone in the house and robbed the place. With additional details from Paul Slade of planetslade.com. For a much more detailed account of The Liverpool Lodger story on planetslade.com, click here;To hear Gerry Jones sing The Liverpool Lodger murder ballad, click here;To hear Meh-229 perform The Liverpool Lodger murder ballad, click here;To check out Gallows Ballads: Twenty Victorian Execution Songs and the True Crime Stories that Inspired Them, a 2024 book by Paul Slade, click here.1:09:05: GHOST POETRY: “The Giaour” by Lord Byron, Part 3 of 3 (continued from last week): Racked with grief and guilt, the Giaour enters a monastery and unburdens himself to the abbot.GLOSSARY OF EARLY-VICTORIAN SLANG USED IN THIS EPISODE:HOISTER MOTS: Shoplifterettes. HIGH SPICERS: Top-tier highwaymen. Think Claude DuVal, Dick Turpin, Tom King, etc.KNIGHTS OF THE BLADE: Swaggering companions who are boastful of their prowess and may also claim a military rank — Captain, Major, Colonel — that they don’t really have a right to. BRUSHER: Liquor glass.OLD TOM: High-quality gin.BOGGIES: Rascally fellows.BON VIVANTS: Spirited and jolly companions.SLIP COVER: Get away, or attempt to do so.GRABS: Law enforcement officers.TWIG: Figure something out, or become aware of a swindle.CORINTHIANS: Sporting men of rank and fashion.VIRTUE REWARDED: Arrested or prosecuted.HELL CATS: Dangerous ladies who frequent the “hells” (gambling dens).BLACKLEGS: Professional gamblers who cheat to win.SPICE ISLANDERS: Swindlers. A double pun: Mace is a spice; a mace-man is a swindler; so a Spice Islander is, as it were, a resident of Swindle Island.SPEELING-CRIB: A “hell” (gambling den).COVENT GARDEN: London neighbourhood that was, in the Regency and early Victorian, famous as a place where bloods, bucks and choice spirits went to sport their blunt. Upscale gambling hells and brothels were conveniently close by the Royal Opera and Drury-lane Theatre.
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