Alfred Richards was hanged - a strange wife murder. Alfred Ernest Richards aged 38, an illiterate millhand, was convicted of the murder of his 37 year old wife, Kathleen, on Monday the 30th of May 1938 at 270 Sutherland Avenue, Welling, Kent, where she had been living. Alfred had battered, kicked and finally manually strangled Kathleen. The murder took place around 11.10 a.m. and at 11.50 a.m. Alfred turned himself in at Shooter’s Hill police station and was taken into custody. The problems in the Richards’ marriage seemed to have started when Kathleen began some sort of relationship with Grace Dolman who was a fellow employee at the cinema where Kathleen worked as an usherette. The went to a cinema together on the night of February the 6th and got home quite late. Alfred was very angry about this and a violent row ensued, with Alfred threatening to kill Kathleen if he found her in the house the following day. She took him at his word and moved ...