Case 40 'The Sad & Shocking Murder Of The Miners Daughter' Timsbury, Somerset 1909

[@donnalawless6769]

Loving your vintage murder series

[@barbaraprest783]

I would say her father was the guilty party - drunk and in a towering rage was capable of anything !

[@merriestroscher5795]

Google the artist Hogarth’s paintings from 1751, Beer Lane and Gin Street. The saying was, Drunk for a penny. Dead drunk for tuppence. Yes, liquor was very cheap.

[@DakotaFord592]

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[@Baskerville22]

I would have thought that a miner in those times could not afford to drink himself into a drunken state daily at the pub. Wages must have been better than I thought, or beer was very cheap.. If Alfred took off and hid his blood-stained overalls after murdering his daughter, what was he wearing when he returned home ?

[@philipr1567]

The tax on alcohol has increased hugely since the early 1900s, as has the profit made by publicans and breweries.

[@janetpendlebury6808]

Beer was very cheap, and some men drank their wages away instead of giving them to their wives to buy food etc, which is why Mary gave all her wages to her mother no doubt. He would have his trousers and shirt on under his overalls.

[@Baskerville22]

@@janetpendlebury6808 Thanks for your response, Jane. Regarding his post-murder clothing - I assumed that overalls were the work-clothes at that time, for that occupation.

[@janetpendlebury6808]

@@Baskerville22 Miners often worked naked or semi naked down the mine. I doubt any of them wore overalls down there.

[@randyhebbebusche3644]

His own family had to pay for what he did. There suffered more in the long run.

[@pfadiva]

@Baskerville22 They couldn't afford it but did it anyway. This habit resulted in much financial hardship in many families. His overalls wouldn't have been his only clothes, this was more like coveralls than what US folks would think of ass overalls

[@simcatman1607]

But Methodists don t drink!

[@darrenrexfrancis2538]

You mean Methodists aren't supposed to drink!!!!!

[@janetpendlebury6808]

The judgement of the Methodist Church, is that total abstinence is a matter for individual choice. It is not a condition of Methodist membership.

[@peterrandall9523]

My maternal Grandfather was a coal miner and a Chapel man. He took a vow of temperance in his early days and kept that vow all his life. Not all coal miners were drinkers.