The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-11-17
! EXIT CREAM
The LoHdon Poisoner Dies on
the Seafold.
HIS LAST DAY ON EARTH,
One Of the Most Fiendish Of Murderer'
Pays the Penalty Of His Grimes


He walked Toward the ScafroId with
out a Tremor-A Resume OF the Fiend's
Deeds victims in Canada, the United
States and England.
LONDON, Nov. l6.-Thomas Neil
Cream, the poisoner, was hanged in
Newgate prison yesterday. He met his
fate with stolid indifference.
Cream slept we'll, retiring at II o'clock
and awoke at 6. He ate light break.
fast, after which he received the chap
lain but in an indifferent manner. The
hangman, governor of the prison and
sheriff appeared at 7:45. Cream was
taken to the pinioning room, where his
arms were bound. The procession to
the scaffold was then begun, the Jail
surgeon joining the procession.
Cream seemed to have settled himself
to meet death. He shivered when he
struck the chilly air of the prisonyard
and the black scaffold loomed up before
him. He Strengthened up, however, and
walked with firm and steady step across
the yard and up the scaffold steps, blink.
ing his eyes rapidly. The scaffold itself
is only small shed in the corner of the
yard and boarded up so that only the
upper part of the condemned mans
body could be seen.
Met Death Stolidly.
When the condemned man stepped
| upon the platform the chaplain read the
burial services and continued reading
until the end. The moose hung ready
| for use, and after the poisoner's legs were
| pinioned with straps the rope was ad-
| justed, the great knot being close to the
| victims left ear.
The hangman stepped quickly back,
drew the bolt and Creams body shot
| downward. The drop was a long one.
| There was two or three spasmodic Jerks
| and in few minutes Cream was dead
The body was cut down and an in
quest held. Solicitor Waters claims to
| have confession from Cream, but tie
| police say Cream never confessed and
| Waters story is discredited
Creams whole life seems to have been
one of crime. He came to America
| from Scotland, where he was born in
1850. He lived in Canada, where he OBJ
tained physicians diploma. His first
crime was in subjecting a young woman
! to q criminal operation. He afterward
married her, deserting her the same day,
| He was compelled to flee from London,
| Ont, because of the poisoning of a
| young woman. In Chicago, whittier
| Cream went, he was arrested on sus-
| picion of killing young Indian girl
| whom he had treated. He was acquit-
| ted, but subsequently convicted Of poi5-
| oning a railway official who was subject
| to epileptic fits and whose life Cream
| tried to insure. He was sentenced 20
life Imprisonment for this crime, but
after serving long term of years the
sentence was commuted to seventeen
years, and five years ago Cream was re-
leased.
The Grimes of q Fiend.
From Chicago Cream went to Canada
and thence to England, where he began
the series of crimes resulting in his ex-
ecution. His first victim was a social
outcast named Matilda Clover, whom
Cream poisoned with strychnine pills.
| Her death was attributed to delirium
| tremens. She died Oct 81, 1891. Sub
sequently Helen Bonworth fell in the
street stricken in the same way as the
| Clover woman. Her case was set down
as a mystery. Not until April, of this
! year, were there any more cases, when
| Alice Marsh and her companion, Emma
Shrivell, fell shrieking ut 1lS Stanford
street. Both died and enough strycn-
nine to kill six people was found in their
stomachs. A detective who had been in
search of the murderer of Matilda
Clover ingratiated himself into Creams
confidence, and by his skill succeeded in
| inducing Cream to talk of the murders
Cream showed great familiarity with
the crimes, but laid the guilt upon Mr.
Harper, medical student whom he at.
tempted to blackmail
The upshot of it was Cream talked
himself into prison. Poison was found
in his lodgings, together with the names
of the women who had died SO mysteri
ously. One woman whom Cream ha6
failed to poison gave much important
testimony against him. Blackmailing
letters charging prominent people will
the crimes were traced to Cream.