The Wood Green Affair - A London Murder Story
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- The Wood Green Affair
News of the Times Episode 330 | 1825
In today’s episode it is 1869 in North London.
Frederick Hinson, who is undergoing some monetary issues, and who is known to have an occasional drinking problem, suspects his live in partner of having an affair with their neighbour, wealthy, known playboy William Boyd.
His partner, Maria, was a governess of a well to do family and socially, she is most probably above him. Yet, the two have lived comfortably together for some years.
Fearing that she is having an affair with the wealthy neighbour, he lays a trap for her telling her he will be away all day. A few hours later, he finds that she has travelled to London with the playboy neighbour and he is incensed. Stalking the train station waiting for the couple to arrive back from London, he grows increasingly angrier.
The double murder of the Wood Green Affair, and its encompassing brutality, is today’s episode of Frightful Fridays.
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He had a terrible temper. It's better to just kick her out if she was truly guilty. But he was guilty of fooling around while married to his first wife. I think it's the pot calling the kettle black. Thank you for sharing.
so, we have a theory on this. In his relationship with Maria - he had connected above his station. Sounds terrible - but this kind of things still happens today where for whatever reason, one person has "caught" another that anyone on the outside thinks - how did you get him/her? He was having money issues. Boyd, as loathsome as he was described to be, was probably more along Maria's level - as a governess, she was probbaly well read. There were loads of comments about her refined aspects. Boyd had been to Japan, and was wealthy. We think it was this combination that made Hinson go mad. He felt inadequate already. Very sad !😔 Apalling that no one would help her when you could see she was in distress and was begging for help. That is just awful. Grrrrr. 😒
That’s a hell of an understatement. The man was psychotic.
@@Tsumami__ Its the English way 😉
My goodness, the violence in this one. Thank you so much Robin and team.
Yes, it makes a change from arsenic, doesn't it? We have always said - we believe it is cases of jealousy or jilted that some of the most violent crimes happen.😔
There is no way he would have believed his "wife" no matter what she said to him. He was hell bent on killing them both. I sure am happy I am not a psychiatrist or anyone who's job it was to get into the head of someone like that. I think a "normal" person would have just packed up and left if he sincerely believed she cheated on him. I think trying to understand someone like that, someone totally absorbed by self, would drive someone to drink, or worse! I couldn't do it, at least not for very long. Another job well done sir!!
Thank you! 🙏We think, besides being an utterly selfish human being (he knows what he is about to do will impact his children - he does not care), we think he had strong feelings of inadequacy. He had caught a girl out of his level. He was a carpenter (with both money and drink issues), she was a refined governess. the papers hinted that she may have been the love child of someone well to do - we do not know. We think Hinson knew he had someone out of his league and that boyd was probably a closer match to her (as apparently loathsome as he was). We think Hinson had more of a drink problem than was admitted (he is having money issues - he has a job - he pops iunto the bar on the way to have some rum) and he felt terribly threatened. Spending hours stalking the train station would have increased his temper to boiling. Appaling that no one would help her and instead followed to watch the show of her "getting" it. Just shocking. 😒
This was a heartbreaking case of domestic violence to the extreme which ultimately ended in the "horrific," murders of two people. Hinson, was obviously no saint to say the least but to murder his live in girlfriend because he thought she was having an affair with their neighbor. The next door neighbor Boyd was no gentleman because he tried to seduce his neighbor Maria and he also was murdered by Boyd. I'm thrilled that Hinson received the death penalty because he deserved it, period! Do you know whatever happened to the children of Hinson and Maria? Great investigating, presenting, backstories, illustrations, photos and videos, too. Take care 🦋
Yes, the whole thing is rather tragic, isn't it? We think Hinson's own feelings of inadequacy were compounded by drink! And that boyd probably looked on Maria as a challenge! Sadly we do not know what happened to the children - we hope they were taken in by the parents. Such a selfish cruel thing to do! 😡
All that makes sense. As for no one helping her. I don't know what society is like today in the UK but here is USA not getting involved is the norm and that has happened here more than once. Thank you for the well thought out reply.
Thank you for all your hard work ~ great presentation!
Thank you! very kind - and very much appreciated!🙏
BLIMEY!! This was a rather gory affair, wasn't it?! I'm shocked, but not terribly surprised, that no one intervened when Maria was being attacked!! That, in my opinion, was as bad as the murder!!
Boyd was a despicable creature!! I'm not at all surprised that no one in the neighbourhood was sorry he died!!
I wonder what happened to Maria and Fredericks poor children?!
EXCELLENT work, Robin and team!!💞💕👍👏❤
Yes, we thought the whole thing of - lets watch the drama unfold and not get involved - was in itself shocking! That is terrible! 😡Boyd - I am sure we have all run across a "Boyd" in our day. Truly, the neighbours really hated him. A conscription was raised to gather money for his defence - and some was raised! Did not make any difference - Home office were not interested. We think it is really odd that even to the end, he seems to think he had a right to do what he did. It is just so odd. 🤔
@@newsofthetimes I wonder whether Maria really DID have a fling with Boyd, or was it just Chinese Whispers?! 🤔🤔
@@nadiabrook7871 Great question! As we have said before, woman victim bashing was the thing at the time. There was no evidence that she had. She was going to pick up some material for some clothes she was making for the children. Did Boyd see her on her way and follow? We don't know. The neighbours did not believe she had been having an affair with him - as we know, neighbours seem to know what is going on. Hmmmm.🤔
@@newsofthetimes Therefore, WHOEVER told Frederick that she and Boyd were having a fling were just winding him up, probably knowing just how insecure he was, plus, no doubt, plying him with drink as well, only adding fuel the fire!!🤔🤔😡😡
@@nadiabrook7871 Great point! How many times has vicious gossip hurt people? Excellent point!👍
He forced poor Maria to "live in sin" then murdered her for becoming what he turned her into. The hypocrisy of it!
Great point!👍 It was a shadowy repeat of what he himself had done! We think he also had a drink probelm that would not have helped his sense of esteem. If some one is popping into the local pub for some rum first think in the morning before allegedly going to a job, there is a probelm....It was not clear in the papers whether he did actually have a job or if that was a ploy! But still - rum in the morning is not someone who is teetotalling as his father said he had been.🤔
Very good. Enjoyed. Thank you.
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This hangman was not talented. The condemned man wasn't the first who basically was slowly strangled - instead of suffering a broken neck with it's instant death .
Yes - it was thing, wasn't it? It was practically Calcraft's signature move! Later executioners had issues of decapitation. We did an episode on bad executions...🪦
What are those loud noises??!
? Sorry