Vere Thomas St Leger Goold, the second son of an Irish baron and a Wimbledon finalist in 1879, was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing and dismembering a lady in a case that Fernando Carreo recovered in MARCA in 2013 as “the case of the murderous tennis participant”.
The Irish tennis participant “with a killer backhand” by no means received over the defeat in opposition to Reverend John Thorneycroft Hartley, in 1883 he succumbed to alcohol and medicines (particularly opium) and deserted tennis in 1885.
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In 1891, he married the Frenchwoman Marie Giraudin and in 1891 he moved to Quebec (Canada) to flee his money owed.
Vere Goold was discovered responsible of murdering and dismembering Mrs Levin
In 1907, Marie Giraudin satisfied Vere Goold to go to the Monte Carlo On line casino to strive a technique to interrupt the financial institution, however they failed.
Shortly afterwards, the police discovered the dismembered stays of Mrs. Levin, the girl who supplied to lend them cash on the on line casino, in suitcases that the couple supposed to ship to Marseille.
Within the room of Marie Giraudin and Vere Thomas St Leger Goold, a hammer, a knife, an axe and bloodstained curtains had been discovered.
The prosecution alleged that Mrs Goold instigated the crime and that Vere Thomas was simply manipulated as a result of he was a “despicable wretch” and a “drunken, dissolute creature”.
Tennis participant Vere Goold dedicated suicide on Satan’s Island
Marie Giraudin, who had her demise sentence commuted to life imprisonment, died of typhoid fever in 1914 in Montpellier jail.
Vere Thomas ended up taking his personal life on the age of 55 on Satan’s Island (in French Guiana) in 1909, the place he was serving a life sentence for homicide.
