Hang 'Em High - 1874 Triple Hanging at H.M. Prison Gloucester.
Hang 'Em High - 1874 Triple Hanging at H.M. Prison Gloucester. Executions of Edwin Bailey aged 32 Charles Edward Butt aged 22 Anne Berry aged 31. H.M. Prison Gloucester Monday 12th January 1874 - Hanged by Robert Anderson Evans. Bailey was the manager of a shoe shop in the Clifton area of Bristol, whose wife had left him due to his adultery. In the summer of 1872, he seduced one of his customers, a servant girl named May Jenkins, and when in January 1873 she gave birth to a child, she took a summons out against Bailey after he refused to admit to being the father and to pay any maintenance. The court ordered him to pay five shillings per week for the child, which he sent to a police officer at Horfield. Ann Berry worked for Bailey and was much enamoured by him; they began an affair while her husband was serving a prison sentence. She paid May Jenkins a visit and persuaded her to accept a health tonic for the baby. When the child began teething, the young mother administered the med