A book binder of Hereford.
A man of outstanding physique, won a beauty competition.
He was very skilful at his trade.
He served in the Army in France enduring all the horrors oftrench wa rfare (WWI).
On his return to Hereford he found that his wife had takenup with an other man. In a fit of rage, 'a crime ofpassion', he strangled her.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment. In 1944 he was inBroadmoor pr ison - insane.

PEDI birth