The next day Sarah would go to her father's who was a weaver on Wheeler Street in Spitalfields, England. Sarah had helped out in the shop with quilling and her wheel was heard that morning. At 11:30 a.m. Samuel called downstairs to ask for the time. Between 11:30 and 12:30 he had used his shaving razor to slit his daughter's throat, the cut was so deep she was almost decapitated. The scene was bloody. At 12:30 he left and soon after he was gone a William Godby discovered Sarah's body.
Samuel to go to a friend telling him he had killed his daughter. The two would get a drink and Samuel would smoke a pipe. Afterwards, his friend asked him what he was going to do. Samuel told him he was going to get money from some friends for prison because he planned to turn himself in.
He would be arrested later that day. He stated that his reason for killing his daughter was because he cared for her deeply. She did not want to be deprived of her and only see her occasionally. He decided that if he could not have her his wife would not either.
At trial, he was immediately found guilty by the jury. He would be executed on Jan. 14, 1805.
The Bury and Norwich Post Dec. 26, 1804
Jackson's Oxford Journal Dec 29, 1804
The Morning Chronicle Jan 12, 1805
The Leeds Intelligencer and Yorkshire General Advertiser Jan. 21, 1805
The Morning Chronicle Jan 12, 1805
The Leeds Intelligencer and Yorkshire General Advertiser Jan. 21, 1805
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