FREDERICK ALBERT ROBERTSON 1887-1913
Filicide: Murder of one's Child
The Sad Story of NELLIE KIME
Nellie Kime was born on the 26th December 1890 at 32 Hamilton Buildings, Great Eastern Street and baptised on the 8th February 1891 at St. Leonards in Shoreditch, East London. The daughter of Edmund Ernest Kime a dairyman born 18th November 1866, and baptised 12th September 1869 at St. Mark Goodman's Fields Tower Hamlets, the son of Samuel a butcher and Lydia.
Edmund married Charlotte Holmes on the 29th December 1889 at St. Luke in West Holloway Islington. Edmund died aged 26 in 1893 at Bethnal Green, leaving Charlotte a widow at just 23 years old, with 2 young children, Nellie aged two, and Ernest born on Christmas Day 1891. Charlotte moved in with Patrick John Kearney, a soldier who was at that time calling himself William. Charlotte and Patrick went on to have seven children between 1896-1908.
Nellie was educated at Globe Road School, Tower Hamlets, between 1895-1900, then at Somerford Street School, Tower Hamlets. In 1905 Nellie Kime aged just 14 years' was rape by her step-father William Kearney, a well educated musician aged 34, who was tried at the Old Bailey, before Mr. Justice Grantham, on the 1st June, Kearney Pleaded Guilty to Carnally knowing and indecently assaulting Nellie Kime, he received a good character, and was sentenced to just nine months' hard labour, in Wormwood Scrubs. He was not tried for rape.
After his release he went back to his common-law-wife Nellie's mother Charlotte, who had given birth to a son Victor John while he was away, another son Stanley William was born in 1908.
Edmund married Charlotte Holmes on the 29th December 1889 at St. Luke in West Holloway Islington. Edmund died aged 26 in 1893 at Bethnal Green, leaving Charlotte a widow at just 23 years old, with 2 young children, Nellie aged two, and Ernest born on Christmas Day 1891. Charlotte moved in with Patrick John Kearney, a soldier who was at that time calling himself William. Charlotte and Patrick went on to have seven children between 1896-1908.
Nellie was educated at Globe Road School, Tower Hamlets, between 1895-1900, then at Somerford Street School, Tower Hamlets. In 1905 Nellie Kime aged just 14 years' was rape by her step-father William Kearney, a well educated musician aged 34, who was tried at the Old Bailey, before Mr. Justice Grantham, on the 1st June, Kearney Pleaded Guilty to Carnally knowing and indecently assaulting Nellie Kime, he received a good character, and was sentenced to just nine months' hard labour, in Wormwood Scrubs. He was not tried for rape.
After his release he went back to his common-law-wife Nellie's mother Charlotte, who had given birth to a son Victor John while he was away, another son Stanley William was born in 1908.
Five years' after the rape, Nellie married Frederick Albert Robertson, in 1910, at Islington in North London. Nellie gave birth to twins in April 1911, Frederick Ernest and Nellie Kathleen, 18 months' later in October 1912, she gave birth to a daughter Beatrice Maud. It had been said that Frederick was a good father.
The Robertson's moved into 12 Saratoga Road, Lower Clapton London., on the 21st June 1913, but within days of moving in Nellie had a breakdown, and was admitted to Hackney Infirmary on the 24th June., it had been arranged, that a friend would take care of the children, but after a couple of days, Frederick brought the children back home, and told neighbours and friends and also his wife, that the Salvation Army would take them.
Frederick Ernest and Nellie Kathleen, both aged two years and three months, and Beatrice Maud aged ten months, were murdered violently of asphyxia, such as suffocation or smothering, on or about the 28th June 1913, and whose bodies were found on Friday morning the 25th July 1913, bricked up under the floor of 12 Saratoga Road, in Clapton. The flat Frederick Albert Robertson, and his family had formerly occupied.
The police were right on the ball, and found out the children must me the Robertson's, and went to the Hackney Infirmary, where the mother Nellie was still an inmate, and very ill, she told the police that her children had been place with the Salvation Army, and her husband worked in the City Road Finsbury, he was arrested that night, on the corner of Shepherdess Walk and City Road, after he had left work.
Frederick Albert Robertson was born in 1887, at Clerkenwell in North London, the son of William a Printer Machine Minder, and Emily. Robertson a relief stamper, with a wooden leg, aged 26 of Dane Street Islington, was tried before Justice Lush, at the Old Bailey in London on the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th of October 1913, he was found guilty of the wilful murder of Nellie Kathleen Robertson, he was not tried for the murders of Frederick or Beatrice.
It also came to light that Gertrude Jane Flude, who was 18 years, and worked alongside Frederick as a relief stamper, had promised to marry him, once he became a free man.
Executed on Thursday the 27th November 1913 at Pentonville Prison in North London, by John Ellis and William Willis. He protested that he was innocent and never admitted the crime.
After the execution, no more was heard of poor Nelly. I just hope she found some happiness in her life.
The Robertson's moved into 12 Saratoga Road, Lower Clapton London., on the 21st June 1913, but within days of moving in Nellie had a breakdown, and was admitted to Hackney Infirmary on the 24th June., it had been arranged, that a friend would take care of the children, but after a couple of days, Frederick brought the children back home, and told neighbours and friends and also his wife, that the Salvation Army would take them.
Frederick Ernest and Nellie Kathleen, both aged two years and three months, and Beatrice Maud aged ten months, were murdered violently of asphyxia, such as suffocation or smothering, on or about the 28th June 1913, and whose bodies were found on Friday morning the 25th July 1913, bricked up under the floor of 12 Saratoga Road, in Clapton. The flat Frederick Albert Robertson, and his family had formerly occupied.
The police were right on the ball, and found out the children must me the Robertson's, and went to the Hackney Infirmary, where the mother Nellie was still an inmate, and very ill, she told the police that her children had been place with the Salvation Army, and her husband worked in the City Road Finsbury, he was arrested that night, on the corner of Shepherdess Walk and City Road, after he had left work.
Frederick Albert Robertson was born in 1887, at Clerkenwell in North London, the son of William a Printer Machine Minder, and Emily. Robertson a relief stamper, with a wooden leg, aged 26 of Dane Street Islington, was tried before Justice Lush, at the Old Bailey in London on the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th of October 1913, he was found guilty of the wilful murder of Nellie Kathleen Robertson, he was not tried for the murders of Frederick or Beatrice.
It also came to light that Gertrude Jane Flude, who was 18 years, and worked alongside Frederick as a relief stamper, had promised to marry him, once he became a free man.
Executed on Thursday the 27th November 1913 at Pentonville Prison in North London, by John Ellis and William Willis. He protested that he was innocent and never admitted the crime.
After the execution, no more was heard of poor Nelly. I just hope she found some happiness in her life.