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My plans had been perfected, and when the opportunity came I seized it, with the resolution of a man for whom there was only one alternative to liberty death. Jim never took his eyes from Ryder's; he sat as if fascinated by the ivory-pale face of his companion. 'I had one friend in Hobart Town, a freed convict named Wainewright. He provided me with the clothes of a gentleman.
Pray accept this for a letter, and believe me, with sincere regards, yours, Wainewright, the notorious poisoner, who, under the name of "Janus Weathercock," contributed various frothy papers on art and literature to the "London Magazine." November, 1823. Dear Mrs. H., Sitting down to write a letter is such a painful operation to Mary that you must accept me as her proxy. You have seen our house.
A very charming red-chalk drawing of her by her brother-in- law is still in existence, and shows how much his style as an artist was influenced by Sir Thomas Lawrence, a painter for whose work he had always entertained a great admiration. De Quincey says that Mrs. Wainewright was not really privy to the murder. Let us hope that she was not. Sin should be solitary, and have no accomplices.
I myself was amongst the crowd of contributors; and was author of various pieces, some in verse, and others in prose, now under the protection of that great Power which is called "Oblivion." Finally, the too celebrated Thomas Griffiths Wainewright contributed various fantasies, on Art and Arts; all or most of which may be recognized by his assumed name of Janus Weathercock.
Baron Alderson, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, aged forty-two, a man of gentlemanly appearance, wearing mustachios, was indicted for forging and uttering a certain power of attorney for 2259 pounds, with intent to defraud the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. There were five indictments against the prisoner, to all of which he pleaded not guilty, when he was arraigned before Mr.
Of other contributors to these periodicals much might be said in larger space, as for instance of the poisoner-critic Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, the "Janus Weathercock" of the London, the original of certain well-known heroes of Bulwer and Dickens, and the object of a more than once recurrent and distinctly morbid attention from young men of letters since.
Charles Lamb speaks of 'kind, light-hearted Wainewright, whose prose is 'capital. We hear of him entertaining Macready, John Forster, Maginn, Talfourd, Sir Wentworth Dilke, the poet John Clare, and others, at a petit-diner.
The beard I wore, and which has since served me as a disguise in my many enterprises, was given to me in the first place by Wainewright. To perfect that beard and destroy every semblance of artificiality, I had worked at it for three years in the cunning, patient way old prisoners toil at such a task.
I feel like a great lord, never having had a house before. The "London," I fear, falls off. I linger among its creaking rafters, like the last rat; it will topple down if they don't get some buttresses. They have pulled down three, Hazlitt, Procter, and their best stay, kind, light-hearted Wainewright, their Janus. The best is, neither of our fortunes is concerned in it. I heard of you from Mr.
Wainewright, with his reason for poisoning Helen Abercrombie ``Upon my soul I don't know, unless it was that her legs were too thick'' is quite on a par with Anna Zwanziger. The supposed sense of power does not even belong exclusively to the poisoner. Jack the Ripper manifestly had something of the same idea about his use of the knife.
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