Hi
Still waiting for the family to arrive - takes about 5 hours travelling. So having finished making beds, tidying up etc. I looked to see if there were further messages about TRAIES.
I saw the one from Kerry about the people at 14 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, Kensington. Wondered if Kerry knew the significance of Rillington Place. I can still remember the name from the 1950's. Did you know that just two doors away at 10 Rillington Place lived Reginald John CHRISTIE? No, thank God, Christie was unconnected to the TRAIES family - he was one of the most notorious murderers of all time!!
Living in a flat in the same house was Timothy EVANS. EVANS wife and child were found strangled, EVANS confessed to the murder of his wife and was executed in 1950. In 1952 the wife of CHRISTIE seemd to suddenly disapear and about a year later CHRISTIE moved from the flat. New tenants couldn't understand the smell in the flat!! CHRISTIE's wife was found buried underneath the floorboards - strangled! Further searching of the house and garden revealed three further bodies of prostitutes who had vanished in 1951/2. ChRISTIE was hanged in 1953. The name of Rillington Place was changed to Ruston Close as Rillington Place became a most 'undesirable' place to live.
No-one knows why EVANS confessed and if he did in fact kill his wife. In the circumstances it seems unlikely that two murderers lived in the same house at the same time. EVANS had been hanged, many people thought there had been a miscarriage of justice. It was mainly as a result of this case that the death penalty was abolished!
Hope you don't mind this being 'off the point' - just shows you never know what will turn up next!!
I really am signing off until after Easter now,
Hope you enjoyed your bedtime story!!
Bernice
