Somebody has confused the name SACH and BRENNAN here...I wonder why?
is that because the BRENNAN who advertises at the back of PRIVATE EYE about his 'CD player' - is really a SACH?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Sach_and_Annie_Walters
Amelia Brennan (1873 - 3 February 1903) and Annie Walters (1869 - 3 February 1903) were two British serial killers better known as the Finchley baby farmers.
[edit] CrimesAmelia Brennan operated a lying-in home in Stanley Road, and later at Claymore House in Hertford Road (both in East Finchley), London. Around 1900,[1] she began to advertise that babies "could be left", and took money for adoptions. The clients, judging from the witness accounts, were mostly servants from local houses who had become pregnant, and who had employers who were keen for the matter to be resolved discreetly. There was a charge for lying in, and another for adoption, a "present" to future parents of between £25 and £30.
Annie Walters would collect the baby after it was born, and then dispose of it with poison — chlorodyne[2] (a medicine containing morphine[3]). They were caught after Walters raised the suspicions of her landlord in Islington who was a police officer. An unknown number of babies were murdered this way, probably dozens.[citation needed] The evidence provided as to the scale of the crime were the quantity of baby clothes found at Claymore House. A local campaign to have their sentences commuted to life failed, and they became the first women to be hanged at Holloway on 3 February 1903, by Henry Pierrepoint, the future father of Albert Pierrepoint, the only double hanging of women to be carried out in modern times.
Sunday, 3 April 2011
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