The terrible Execution Of Louie Calvert "The fetish murder" She was Allowed to see here son before death.

At a minute to nine on the summer morning of Thursday, the 24th of June 1926, a small group of men silently formed up outside the condemned cell at the end of 'B' wing in the central area of Manchester's Strangeways prison.

Upon a signal from the governor, Thomas Pierrepoint, Britain's "No. 1" hangman at that time, entered the cell at precisely 9.00 a.m. accompanied by two male warders. The two women warders, who had been looking after the prisoner, told her to stand up and Pierrepoint took her arms and quickly strapped her wrists behind her with a leather strap before leading the way out of the cell through a second door which had been uncovered by sliding away the wardrobe.

The prisoner was led forward into the execution chamber by the two male warders and stopped by Pierrepoint on a chalked "T" precisely over the divide of the trapdoors. The two warders, standing on boards set across the trap, supported her, one on either side while William Willis, Pierrepoint's assistant, put a leather strap round her ankles and thighs.

Pierrepoint withdrew what would have appeared to her to be a white pocket handkerchief from his top pocket and deftly placed it over her head following quickly with the leather covered noose, positioning the eyelet just under the angle of her lower left jaw and sliding down the rubber washer to hold it in place. His eyes darted from side to side to check that all was ready before he lent forward, withdrew the safety pin and pushed the metal lever away from him.

The hooded form disappeared through the trap and dangled in the cell below.

The medical officer went down to listen to the weakening heartbeat coming from the small broken body, now hanging motionless, its head drooping to one side.

It had taken no more than 20 seconds to carry out the sentence of the court upon Mrs. Louie Calvert. Her body was left on the rope for the customary hour before being taken down and prepared for inquest. The post-mortem found that her death had been "instantaneous" and confirmed that she was not pregnant. These facts were made public at the subsequent inquest, held later in the day before the Leeds Coroner, Mr. Stuart Rodgers.

Her body was then buried in an unmarked grave within the prison grounds in accordance with her sentence. She was the first woman to be hanged at Strangeways since Mary Ann Britland in 1886. Louie was calm at the end and was reported to have accepted her fate with considerable courage.

The hanging drew a crowd outside the prison gates estimated at some 500 people, many of them women, who waited around until the death notice was displayed on the prison gates.

It has been said that Louie was somewhat disappointed to find the press were not going to be allowed to witness her hanging. (This practice had been largely discontinued some years earlier.) Apparently, she wanted to be in the limelight for once in her life.

In fact, she didn't arouse much media interest at all which was probably another disappointment for her, this being partly due to the General Strike that was going on at the time of her trial.

Louie Calvert (see photo) was unusual amongst the women executed in the 20th century in that she was a known criminal who had convictions for petty theft and prostitution, although up to the murder of Mrs.

Waterhouse, nobody had suspected her of being a killer. She was a small, unattractive 33 year old who had used several aliases, as a prostitute she worked under the name of Louie Gomersal and was known as Louise Jackson to the Salvation Army, whose meetings she attended. She was known to have an unpleasant and violent temper. She had a 6 year old son, Kenneth, whom she was particularly fond of and asked to have visit her in the condemned cell. He was taken into care after the execution.

Under the name of Louise Jackson, Louie took a live in job as housekeeper to one Arthur Calvert who was a night watchman living at 7 Railway Place in the Pottery Fields area of Leeds. Louie's son also went to live with them. She and Arthur had an affair and after a while, Louie claimed that she was pregnant by him and persuaded Arthur to marry her. She was able to deceive Arthur for some time and eventually told him she was leaving him to go to her sister's home in Dewsbury to give birth.

She sent Arthur a telegram to let him know she had arrived safely. There was of course no baby and the pregnancy had been feigned purely to force Arthur into marriage.

Louie had in fact returned to Leeds immediately and on the 8th of March 1926, took up lodgings with a 40 year old rather eccentric widow, called Mrs. Lily Waterhouse, at 30 Amberley Road, Leeds.

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