![]() I endeavored to prevail upon her to renew the correspondence. These circumstances had an indescribable effect upon my mind I was miserably unhappy, and was incapable for attending to my business, and gave myself up entirely to despair. Her father called upon me, and wished that the connexion might be discontinued. ![]() A dispute unhappily arose I wrote to her on the subject, expressing my regret at the unfortunate rupture, described the very great regard which I entertained for her, implored her to consent to reconciliation, and begged that she would write me an easily answer. at the Grapes, Church-row, Aldgate my affection for her was extremely great I had for some time corresponded with her. I had long been acquainted with a young woman named Sarah Longman, daughter of Mr. Albert’s house in Jacques-court, Thomas-street. On Friday evening last I met a young man named Joseph Williams with whom I had long been intimate, at Mrs. Prior to his trial he penned a confession that offered a perplexing reason behind his terrible actions: Robert Dean turned himself in to the authorities several days later. Mary summoned a doctor, but it was too late: the child died within the hour. ![]() When they didn’t return, she went out looking for them and was horrified to see her daughter stumbling toward her, blood spurting from a deep gash in her throat. He asked for permission to take Mary Ann for a short walk, and her mother agreed. Then Dean and Joseph left the house, but after they had walked only a short distance, Dean made an excuse to go back to the Albert residence. On the day of the murder, Dean met Joseph at Mary Albert’s house and little Mary Ann sat in his lap for a time. On his frequent visits to the Albert family, he would play adoringly with Mary’s daughter, little Mary Ann. ![]() Robert was a coworker and good friend of Mary Ann’s uncle, Joseph Williams, and he also became close to Joseph’s sister, Mary Albert. The crime appeared, on the surface, to be without motive. George’s Fields, Surrey for the murder of Mary Ann Albert, age four. On this date in 1819, an apprentice watch engraver named Robert Dean was hanged at. (Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. 1819: Robert Dean, “rational incoherence” ![]()
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