The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-11-16
CREAMS EXECUTION.
He Met His Doom Bravely-story of His
Grimes.

Grimes.
LONDON, Nov. 16-Thomas Neill, alias
Cream, was hanged at a. m. yesterday
at Newgate, by Ellington, for the pois-
oning of Matilda Glover and other girls on
authority of the High Sheriff Of the
County of Lonton, no reprieve having
been obtained.
The murderer was silent, firm, and
pale, but made a brief speech of courtesy
to the prison officials. Death was in
Simultaneous.
Thomas Neill Cream was orn in Glas-
gov, Scotland, in 1850, of Irish paren.
tage. He was taken by his parents when
only eight years old to Canada.
After good school education his father
entered him in the medical department.
of MGill College, Montreal. There he
matriculated, took his degree and gained
some distinction by writing q letter on
chloroform.
He soon afterwards left his lodgings,
and was next seen in Quebec, He had
been in the habit of going to a place
called Waterloo, some miles from Mon
treal, where he formed the acquaintance
of the daughter of an hotel keeper, whom
he nearly killed by surgical operation,
and was forced by her father to marry
her.
Cream left his wife the day after the
wedding and went to. Quebec, and after
being lost CjFf'. SsAme time turned
up in London, oh~, Ars he pracsiced
medicine.
At this place he was visited by young
woman, who was one morning found
dead in closet at the rear of the house
with a bottle which had contained chloro-
form beside her. Cream was suspected,
but escaped prosecution,
Cream then migrated to Chicago, and
started a surgery in West Madison street.
Here he soon earned an unenviable repu-
sation.
A young Indian woman, while being
treated there, died, and Cream told his
black servant to put a white handkerchief
in the window to denote that she had
gone out, and he would then set fire to
the house, a wooden one in order to
destroy all traces of his crime A police
man, however, obtained an inkling that
something was wrong, and effecting an
entry to the building, discovered the
young woman dead in bed.
Inquiries led to the capture of both
Cream aud the colored woman, but they
were discharged for lack of evidences.
That was in 1880.
In the following year Cream was adver-
tising a specific for the cure of epileptic
fits, and railway official sent his wife, a
young woman Of prepossessing appear
ance, TO his surgery for the prescrip-
tions.
Cream used to send her to druggist in
Clarke street for the medicine, and upon
one occasion he added something to the
mixture, and the husband died twenty
minutes after taking the first dose.
In the meantime Cream had tried to
insure the mans life but failed.
A local doctor was called in and as the
deceased had been suffering from fits he
was buried in the usual way.
Cream upon hearing this telegraphed to
the coroner, informing him that the
chemist who prepared the medicine put
in too much strychnine. Getting no
answer from the coroner, he wrote to the
district-attorney, who decided to take ac-
tion in the matter.
The body was exhumed aud it was
discovered that the man had died from
an overdose of strychnine.
Both the wife of the deceased and
Cream were arrested, bun the former gave
States evidence against the latter, who
was found guilty OF murder in the second
degree and sentenced TO imprisonment for
life.
He remained in Joliet prison until July
81, 1891
In explanation Of his early discharge it
is stated that some influence had been
brought to bear on the governor, who
commuted his sentence to seventeen
years, and allowing for good conduct,
etc, his term expired on the date already
mentioned.
After his discharge Cream went to
Quebec, and after staying for a time with
his brother Daniel his friends sent him to
England.
Cream soon after began the series of
crimes which resulted in his detection
aud execution. lie selected as a victim
girl named Matilda Glover. one of
those wretched women whose friendess-
ness and social isolation render them an
easy prey TO such persons as Cream. He
poisoned her with strychnine pills CON
tanned In gelatine capsules.
Matilda Glover died on October 81,
1891, week before Helen Donworth or
Lindell, fell down in the street in agon los
similar To those from which Matilda