Criminal records

[heywood]

In reply #28 on your other thread I mention a potential marriage for Minnie Davies.
Best not to continue that on here though and detract from the criminal records so will post on your other thread.

[Ashtone]

Looks like the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.    Report from July 1861. Lots of witness accounts about this unsavory crime in Kent newspapers July and August.

One in-depth report, in particular, is in the Chatham News (13 July 1861). It's quite grisly!

[brigidmac]

Oh dear that's terrible the couple only got married in June 1861.

But widowed Amelia was entrusted to care for her daughters ('Alice/Frances ) child 30 years later !

So far I haven't found records of what larceny or felony was committed by Alice Frances Barrow/Mansfield/Davies

+ No evidence of the existence of George Daniel Mansfield
Apart from a birth record for their child a marriage & a crime

I'd love to be able to access newspapers

[Ashtone]

Maybe the 1861 crime is what led to the Barrow couple moving up north. From the in-depth report I read (with witness accounts) I would consider Amelia "hardcore". I wouldn't read the 1861 reports if you've just eaten.    Their dead baby was found in a horrible state.

[heywood]

So far I haven't found records of what larceny or felony was committed by Alice Frances Barrow/Mansfield/Davies

+ No evidence of the existence of George Daniel Mansfield
Apart from a birth record for their child a marriage & a crime

I'd love to be able to access newspapers

I can only access snippets but haven’t seen anything in newspapers. There is lots of information re her crimes on:
UK, Calendar of Prisoners, 1868-1929
Registers of Habitual Criminals and Police Gazettes, 1834-1934

I thought you had quoted from the last one -  Police Gazettes

[Ashtone]

There's also an 1884 criminal record for Alice Barrow (no aliases). It references 1879 and 1880 for her previous crimes, as well.
Verdict: Pleaded guilty of felony, to wit, larceny, after previous conviction for felony.

[heywood]

1895 - Habitual Criminals and Police Gazettes - summary

Frances Davies alias Mansfield and Alice Barrow
‘Scar centre forehead, bridge nose, left temple, right cheek-bone, eyebrow and each corner bottom lip.’
6 previous convictions.

Her description sounds as though she has been beaten.

In 1891 she had a scar on the back of her hand and a mention of 11 convictions though.

Seems to have started in 1880 and she was sent to Mount Vernon reformatory for 5 yrs for Larceny.

[Ashtone]

Liverpool Weekly Courier, 25 October 1884

[Ashtone]

Her description sounds as though she has been beaten.

Well, maybe mum Amelia was responsible...