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Gardener Murders Wife

Charles Revell, a gardener, was executed at Springfield Prison on on 29th July 1878 for the murder of his wife, Hester (23) in Epping Forest. Following lunch with her parents on 10th June, Revell went out to fetch some ale for them all to share. When he returned home over an hour later he was drunk. Revell and his wife began to quarrel over money when she grabbed him by the lapels and struck him. He knocked her to the ground and fled from the house. Against advice from her family she followed him into the forest where her body was discovered the next day, her throat cut from ear to ear.