She was a single mother of a two year old little boy at the time of her death . She was murder by
a gentlemen going by the name of Fred who turned out to be Dr. Thomas Neill Cream
Matilda Clover 27 years of age turned to prostitution after her husband walked out on her and her child.
She rented a room from Mr and Mrs.Vowles, at 27 Lambeth Road , she made friends with Lucy Rose a servant of the Vowles . Who she told about a date with a Gentlemen named Fred . Lucy was a witness as seeing Fred and Matilda enter
the Vowles residence and retire to Matilda room at 9:00 pm the evening of Oct 19,1891 she didn't see Fred leave .
MATILDA'S SCREAMING
The whole household was awaken around 3 am with Matilda screaming she was naked and convulsing she kept screaming that the pills Fred had given her were poison . she died fours after she had taken the pills . Her doctor had attributed her death to her drinking and mixing of a prescription he had prescribed her .
If her Doctor would have read the papers he would of noticed the that another woman a 19 yr old named Ellen " Nellie" Donworth had been murdered in the same fashion on Oct 13, 1891
She was a single mother of a two year old little boy at the time of her death . She was murder by
a gentlemen going by the name of Fred who turned out to be Dr. Thomas Neill Cream
Matilda Clover 27 years of age turned to prostitution after her husband walked out on her and her child.
She rented a room from Mr and Mrs.Vowles, at 27 Lambeth Road , she made friends with Lucy Rose a servant of the Vowles . Who she told about a date with a Gentlemen named Fred . Lucy was a witness as seeing Fred and Matilda enter
the Vowles residence and retire to Matilda room at 9:00 pm the evening of Oct 19,1891 she didn't see Fred leave .
MATILDA'S SCREAMING
The whole household was awaken around 3 am with Matilda screaming she was naked and convulsing she kept screaming that the pills Fred had given her were poison . she died fours after she had taken the pills . Her doctor had attributed her death to her drinking and mixing of a prescription he had prescribed her .
If her Doctor would have read the papers he would of noticed the that another woman a 19 yr old named Ellen " Nellie" Donworth had been murdered in the same fashion on Oct 13, 1891
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