George Joseph Smith
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George Joseph Smith was an English serial killer and bigamist who was convicted and subsequently hanged for the murders of three women in 1915. The case became known as the Brides in the Bath Murders.
George Joseph Smith
George Joseph Smith and Bessie Mundy, pictured shortly before her murder
Smith's handwritten note to Marshall Hall
HM Prison Maidstone
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HM Prison Maidstone is a Category C men's prison, located in Maidstone, Kent, England and operated by His Majesty's Prison Service.
George Joseph Smith
…appealed on the grounds that the evidence of "system" has been improperly admitted, but Lord Reading LCJ dismissed the appeal, and Smith was hanged in Maidstone Prison on 13 August 1915 by the hangman John Ellis. The use of 'system' – comparing other crimes to the one a criminal is being tried for to prove guilt – set…
HMP Maidstone