On Sept. 12, 1907, when Bert Shaw boarded the 7:20 a.m. train at Sheffield, England, for his home in Camden Town, London, he had no idea he was taking part in the first act of what was to become one of England’s most infamous murder cases.

A bloody basin bore evidence that the killer had washed up after the murder. In the parlour, a meal for two had obviously been consumed. In the Camden Town murder, almost everyone involved had a secret. Bert’s wife wasn’t legally his wife at all. Her name was Phyllis Dimmock and she was a prostitute.

As for Robert’s attempts to have friends and colleagues lie to protect him, Marshall Hall claimed he went to such trouble because he didn’t want his family to find out that he often associated with prostitutes.

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