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Mugshots: Kate Webster, the killer
This is Kate Webster, proud and mournful...
Born in County Wexford, Ireland, after a tough upbringing she made her criminal career in Liverpool, and eventually London. Here she thrived for a while, but was often in and out of jail, until eventually she hit on a scheme to impersonate her victims while selling their possessions. If only she didn't enjoy the Tyburn reenactments, the attractions of the street theatre of Cvent Garden, the Punch and Judy shows and Bartholomev Fair, she may well never have fallen from grace.
For who but William Marwood enjoyed those entertainments too?
Mugshots: William Marwood, the executioner
Here are the real William Marwood's eyes, one inert and the other cruel-seeming. And yet he was such a polite gentleman executioner.
A man of science, he spent his career as exeuctioner trying to quicken the 'dance of death' at the end of his hangman's rope. Then one day he was asked to hang one of his own acquintances, a young woman he has been courting, and now accused of a horrific crime.
That woman of course was Catherine Lawler, better known as Kate Webster.