The Meader Case: The Death of Mabel Meader — Strangulation or Medical Mystery? | True Crime 1922

Описание: The Meader Case: The Death of Mabel Meader — Strangulation or Medical Mystery? | True Crime 1922
News of the Times | Episode 615 | 1922
In 1922, a young wife was found dying inside her South London home.
Moments later, her husband — Alfred Meader, a blind ex-soldier — staggered into the street with his throat cut.

What followed became one of the most debated domestic tragedies of the post-war years:
a marriage in crisis, a fatal struggle, disputed medical evidence…
and the arrival of Sir Edward Marshall Hall, the most formidable defence barrister of the age.

Tonight’s episode explores:
The death of Mabel Meader and the chaotic scene that greeted police
Alfred Meader’s shocking statements in the street and at the hospital
Why the coroner blamed the victim — long before the jury ever convened
The role of St Dunstan’s and the public sympathy for blinded soldiers
The extraordinary thymus-gland evidence that turned the courtroom upside-down
How Marshall Hall reframed the case and won a verdict few expected

Part domestic tragedy, part forensic puzzle, this is a revealing window into the pressures of early 20th-century marriage, the lingering wounds of the Great War, and the limits of medical understanding in 1922.

FURTHER PARTICULARS
If you enjoy historical oddities, stay to the end.
We’ll be taking a brief detour into:
The 1922 parliamentary attempt to regulate how 16-year-old girls wore their hair (yes, really), and
The Chelsea pig controversy of 1849, in which lawmakers bravely confronted the menace of… excessively well-behaved pigs.

Proof — if any were needed — that the British legal system has never been short of enthusiasm, only priorities.
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