Escape from Strangeways: The Hammer Murder of Warder Webb (1888)
News of the Times | Episode 535 | 1876

🔨 A daring prison break, a brutal murder… and the most notorious escape in Strangeways history.

In January 1919, the walls of Manchester’s Strangeways Prison could not hold William Horwood, a career criminal with nothing left to lose. Armed with a hammer stolen from the prison workshop, Horwood made a desperate bid for freedom — and in the process, bludgeoned Warder James Owen to death.

What followed shocked Britain: a citywide manhunt, a terrified public, and sensational headlines chronicling every twist. But was this simply the act of a desperate man, or part of a calculated plan to outwit the law?

From the grim corridors of Strangeways to the narrow streets of industrial Manchester, this is the true story of violence, escape, and justice in post-war Britain.

📜 Featuring: rare contemporary newspaper reports, eyewitness accounts, the escape route in detail, and the dramatic conclusion that brought the case to an end.

Further Particulars:
Those inventive Victorians never did anything by halves—ballooning included. What began as a scientific flight across France ended with one man crash-landing in Belgium… completely nude.

Was it for aerodynamic reasons?
A sudden philosophical awakening?
Or simply a very French solution to a very Victorian problem?

👤 Narrated by Robin Coles

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📚 Related cases from the archive:
1888: Bradford’s Jack the Ripper: The Mutilation of John Gill | EP507
https://youtu.be/4GK27M1s-U4
1888: The Man Who Vanished: Whitechapel’s Other Killer | EP510
https://youtu.be/l8XGVZO9t_4
1888: The Regent’s Park Murder of 1888 | EP511
https://youtu.be/wZ_F-ZIEmu0

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The Woman in the Water Tub: The 1915 Murder of Carrie Jubb
News of the Times | Episode 534 | 1915
At 6 a.m. on a cold February morning, a young stable hand in Huddersfield made a horrifying discovery: a woman’s body, bruised and bloodied, was found kneeling headfirst in a horse’s water tub. Her name was Carrie Jubb, a woman of no fixed abode, with a troubled past—and no one to sound the alarm when she didn’t return home.

Who killed her? And why?

In this chilling Edwardian true crime case, we examine a life lived on the margins—of class, of safety, and of society’s concern.

With abusive partners, jealous exes, and shifting witness statements, Carrie’s story is one of silent suffering and systemic failure. No one was ever brought to trial. And her killer likely walked free.

⚖️ From newspaper accounts and inquest records, we piece together the last known movements of Carrie Jubb—and the circumstantial case that nearly led to justice.

🕯️ Further Particulars Segment
After the main case, we turn to a Victorian horror of a different sort:
💀 The Dangers of Overthinking.
In our bonus tale from 1879, a young American woman’s death is blamed not on arsenic or foul play—but on astronomy, watercolours, and excessive learning.

Prepare for a tragic warning from the annals of pseudoscience: ladies, beware—too much education may be… fatal.

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•913: The Curious Case of The Liverpool Sack Murder | EP423
https://youtu.be/QZTHm9xkPrY
1919: The Mysterious Murder of Nellie Rault | EP465
https://youtu.be/kOX5mRlG_as

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The Inheritance Scandal of Lady Gooch: Fake Pregnancy, Stolen Baby, and a £3.8 Million Estate
News of the Times | Episode 533 | 1893
🎩 Victorian Deception at Its Finest — Fake pregnancies, hidden heirs, and one very determined Lady...

In today’s gripping episode of News of the Times, we dive into the jaw-dropping 1878 scandal surrounding Lady Anne Gooch, who stood accused of staging a pregnancy and smuggling a baby into a London hotel in a desperate bid to claim a £3.8 million fortune (in today’s money). But when doctors grew suspicious and the housekeeper blew the whistle, society was left stunned...

💼 Did she truly believe no one would notice? Or was there more to the story than met the monocled eye?

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We bring you the strange case of a man deemed “insane” — by his own family! A tale of betrayal, survival, and one man’senforced placement into an asylum.

🕯️ Based on original newspaper archives
📜 Unfiltered, unsensationalised—history exactly as it was told
🎙️ Thoughtfully narrated for fans of true crime, Victorian history, and forgotten scandals

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1898: The Case of the St Neots Murder | EP448
https://youtu.be/4qvv0FZ36g8
1893: The Mysterious Murder at Poplar | EP463
https://youtu.be/JX9GZaFZCKY
1891: Mary Maguire, the Ripper & Carrie Brown | EP466
https://youtu.be/i3HU3NTCZTw
1890: The Kingsland Murder | EP471
https://youtu.be/2NPK1hLuVFo

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