By Jonathan Oates
ISBN-10: 1473841232
ISBN-13: 9781473841239
What influenced John George Haigh to homicide at the very least six humans, then dissolve their corpses in centred sulphuric acid? How did this clever, well-educated guy from a loving, strongly non secular kin of Plymouth Brethren develop into a fraudster, a thief, then a serial killer? within the newest of his best-selling experiences of felony historical past, Jonathan Oates reinvestigates this sensational case of the overdue Nineteen Forties. He delves into Haigh's Yorkshire historical past, his recognition as a loner, a bully and a forger in the course of his years at Wakefield Grammar university, and his becoming urge for food for the great lifestyles which his modest employment in assurance and advertisements couldn't maintain. Then got here his movement to London and a quick, it seems that remorseless descent into the depths of crime, from deceit and robbery to cold-blooded killing. As he follows the process Haigh's crimes in photo, forensic element, Jonathan Oates supplies a desirable inside of view of Haigh's try and hold via a sequence of perfect...
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The two discussed music and Haigh turned Gay’s pages for him whilst playing the organ. He added that Haigh was ‘quite a likeable little fellow, highly intelligent and one might almost say saturated in the Classical compositions. I was quite fond of him’. 32 Haigh himself wrote: Most music has a soothing effect on me. All Chopin is beautiful and restful, even the Revolutionary Study, which stirs the soul and brings a desperate urge to get somewhere. I also love all Tchaikovsky – except the 1812, which is one of the most irritating things I know.
Usually, the narratives of Haigh’s case have downplayed the six and so put their humanity at a discount. Yet Donald and Amy McSwan and their son, William Donald McSwan, Dr Archibald Henderson and his wife, Rosalie, and Henrietta Helen Olivia Robarts Durand-Deacon were all personalities in their own right, as was Haigh himself. There have been five full-length studies of Haigh, published between 1950 and 1988, of varying value, and several part studies. He has been portrayed variously as an enigmatic man of contrasts, a man scarred by his parents’ religion, or simply a calculating murderer.
Stamford had a population of 8,229 in 1901. The Haighs lived in a terraced house, 3 Salisbury Villas, 22 King’s Road, just north of the town centre, and worshipped at the Plymouth Brethren meeting house on Pleasant Place. In 1903 John Robert Haigh was the Station Superintendent at the Stamford and Grantham Works, where he was responsible for the erection, running and repairs of the whole place. Mr Edmundson, the manager, said of him in December 1909: ‘He is a capable Engineer, having successfully erected 1,000 KW of direct current machinery including Watertube Boilers, High Speed Engines, dynamos, Switchboards and Batteries.