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The following extracts are from F. White & Co.s Directory of Warwickshire, 1874, and the section on the History of Coventry.1734 Thomas Wildley, a woolcomber, murdered his aunt, Susannah Wall, and Ann Shenton, her daughter, who kept the White Lion in Smithford Street. 1758 John Rue hanged for house-breaking. 1765 Thomas Edwards, a farmer, was murdered near Whoberley, by Moses Baker, a weaver of Coventry, and two dragoons named Drury and Leslie. They were hung afterwards at Gibbet Hill. 1772 Mary Cloes, of Gosford Street was burnt to death by spontaneous combustion. The deceased was so excessively addicted to dram-drinking, that she occasionally drank a quart of rum, or of aniseed water, daily; and thus filling her veins with spirits, she became inflammable as a lamp. 1772 Charles Pinchbeck, keeper of the Stoke toll-gate, near Binley, was robbed and murdered in his own house by two burglars named Farn and Howe. 1785 Bissell and Hawkins were hanged for forgery, and Farmer for horse stealing. 1787 Mary Felkin set he Golden Horse public house on fire. She was convicted and executed for the offence. 1790 Farnsworth, Phillips and Archer were hanged for robbing the 'Shepherd and Shepherdess' public house in Keresley. 1800 Bissaker and Henshaw were hanged for forgery. 1810 Obadiah Yardley, having committed suicide, his body was buried near to the junction of Hannah Lane with the Stoney Stanton Road, against the canal bridge. 1817 Thomas Lawson, butcher, was killed in his bed by the falling of his house, in the Great Butcher Row. 1817 Charles Sanders was executed at Warwick, for the murder of an old man named Rogers at Keresley. 1818 William Law was killed by a man named Jackson, of Foleshill, in a quarrel on the Warwick Road, when returning from Kenilworth Statutes. 1821 Edward Bradshaw was executed on Whitley Common for burglary at the Punch Bowl public house, Spon End, and cutting and wounding Mr. Lines, the Landlord. 1831 Mary Ann Higgins was executed on Whitley Common for murdering her uncle by means of poison, an old man of the same name, residing in Spon Street. 1831 a meeting of ribbon weavers... and in the course of collecting a meeting for the evening, a party entered the factory of Josiah Beck... and set fire thereto. Two of those apprehended, Sparkes and Burbery, were condemned to death.... afterwards commuted to transportation for life. 1849 Mary Ball was hanged in front of the gaol for poisoning her husband at Nuneaton. 1849 Mr. William Wombell was killed by an elephant at Coventry Show Fair. 1861 A fire occurred in the rick-yard of Mr. Sammon, Tile Hill. 1872 A murder was committed at Priors Hardwick. The culprit was Edward Hancock, a butcher, who stabbed his wife. He was executed at Warwick gaol. 1873 Dr. Waters, an eminent physician, was thrown from his horse after visiting a patient, at Sowe, and died from the effects of the fall the day after. 1873 A shocking murder and suicide occurred at King's Wood, near Warwick. The parties were Francis Spencer Hildrick, aged 73, and Joseph Parsons, aged 43, whom it appears lived together in a cottage for 20 years. They lived in a rather peculiar manner, no female being allowed to enter the premises. At night Parsons returned home about eleven o'clock, and he and Hildrick were seen conversing together on the road. Parsons walked into the house, took down a gun, and deliberately shot Hildrick through the head, who dropped dead. Parsons re-loaded the gun, and, after three fruitless attempts to discharge it, shot himself, and the wound proved fatal. 1873 At Bishop Itchington John Smith and a sheep dog were killed by lightning whilst sheltering under a tree. Thomas Atkins, a labourer, who was also sheltering under the same tree, was severely stunned.
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