By Mark Aston
In Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths In Hampstead, Holburn and St Pancras the coolness of evil is introduced with reference to domestic as every one bankruptcy investigates the darker part of humanity in circumstances of homicide, deceit and natural malice during this nook of London. From crimes of ardour to opportunistic killings and coldly premeditated acts of homicide, the whole spectrum of criminal activity is mentioned, bringing to lifestyles the sinister background of this a part of the capital during the last four hundred years.
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Prance alleged that, during the scuffle, Robert Green approached Sir Edmund and proceeded to strangle him: When Sir Edmundbury Godfrey came down to the bench, Greene, who followed him, put about his neck a large twisted handkerchief: and thereupon all the rest assisted, and dragged him into a corner … Greene … thumped him on the breast and twisted his neck until he broke it … but his body remained warm, and seemed hardly dead … After keeping the body concealed for four days they put it in a sedan-chair, and about midnight took it to a house in Soho, whence the corpse was ultimately carried by Hill, on horseback, to the spot on Primrose Hill where it was afterwards found, and there they thrust the knight’s sword through his body.
A proclamation, dated 19 November 1669, of a reward of £20 for the arrest of ‘Lewis, alias Lodowick, alias Claude Deval, alias Brown’ seems to have paid dividend. He was captured when the worse for drink in the Hole-in-the-Wall tavern in Chandos Street (now Place), Covent Garden. Aged only twenty-six, Duval was tried on Monday, 17 January 1670 and hanged four days later at Tyburn. A mourning coach respectfully conveyed his body to the Tangier tavern, St Giles, where it lay in state until interment.
Jinney was rumoured to have poisoned him, using witchcraft to bring about his downfall. The ensuing inquest proved nothing and, although lonely once more, she was now financially comfortable. This episode, along with her increasing eccentricity, caused Jinney to become even more reviled. Baited and taunted by locals, she in return would scream profanities at all who passed her gate. Residents would often gather outside her cottage, blaming her for local misfortune. Jinney later became known as ‘Mother Red Cap’ due to her distinctive red headwear.
