Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Coventry by David McGrory

Author:David McGrory
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783033812
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books
Published: 2013-05-22T00:00:00+00:00

The court commended the carrier for his bravery.

Elizabeth Webb, wife of Nelson Webb’s brother and landlady of the Pilot in Much Park Street was next to give evidence. She stated that shortly before four o’clock on Saturday afternoon Nelson came to their bar and looked very dark about the eyes. She asked him if he had been taking anything, to which he replied, ‘No, it’s want of rest makes me look so ill. I have never slept once since last Tuesday night.’

Elizabeth offered him a cup of tea, but Nelson said he just wanted to see his brother, saying, ‘If I don’t see him soon I’m sure my heart will break!’ She said Nelson then went upstairs walking around and whistling seemingly as if he did not know what he was doing.

Perhaps the goriest moment of the day was when the actual bodies of Nelson and Eliza Webb were laid on the floor before the inquest in an upper room of the Holly Bush. The bodies were placed as they had been found on the day in question. The Coventry Herald reporter says:

The appearance of the bodies … was the most sickening and awful spectacle we ever beheld. There lay a young woman of agreeable countenance still unruffled, and little changed in death. The fatal ball having perforated the side of her head. The man mauled and gory, and all the front of his skull and the upper part of his face absolutely blown away.

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