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Kate Webster
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Webster's appearance (depicted here by The Penny Illustrated
Paper and Illustrated Times)
was a topic of comment in the press.
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Kate Webster (left) and Julia Martha Thomas (right)
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Mayfield Cottages, Julia Martha Thomas' house in Richmond. She
lived in the left-hand portion
(number 2) of the semi-detached
villa.
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Webster boiled Thomas' dismembered body in a laundry copper such
as this.
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The Thames river bank below Barnes railway bridge, where a box
containing Thomas' remains was found
on 5 March 1879 after being
thrown into the river the previous day by Webster.
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A depiction by The Illustrated Police News of the trial
and conviction of Kate Webster.
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An anonymous broadside published ca. July 1879
commemorating the trial, sentence
and execution of Webster.
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Webster's execution, as depicted by a souvenir illustration in
the Illustrated Police News.