History
Newspaper Extract
Murder at Woodhouse
February, 1893A terrible murder was committed at the village of Woodhouse, five miles from Sheffield, early yesterday morning. The victim was a young married woman, the wife of Edward Heemings, a filler, employed at the Treeton Colliery. The couple had been married only a short time, but their domestic life had been disturbed by jealousy. Heemings had several times threatened to kill his wife and himself.
About 3 o'clock yesterday morning Mrs. Heemings, who with her husband lodged at the house of a man named Kennington, was heard to scream loudly twice. No notice was taken of this, but two hours later another lodger looked into the bedroom and saw Mrs. Heemings lying on the bed in her nightdress with her throat cut. She was quite dead.
A search was made for Heemings who had decamped, taking with him the razor with which the murder was committed. Up to nightfall he had not been arrested.