History of Kilburn and West Hampstead

The scene of the crime Rupert Road ran between Canterbury Road and Carlton Vale in south Kilburn. It’s still on the map but no original properties have survived. Number 2 was a terraced house, its rooms occupied by several families. In all, an amazing total of 23 persons were shown living there on census night in 1881, a similar number to other properties in the road. OS Map 1915, showing Rupert Road, Kilburn On 22 March 1881, Ann Moulford and her husband Charles were woken at 2.30am by loud screams of ‘Murder’ from the next room. Reluctantly Charles got up and knocked on his neighbours’ door, the home of John and Eliza Wegener and their two children. ‘What are you doing?’ he asked. John’s reply was ‘Nothing much.’ Charles asked for the door to be opened and when he was told to go away, he broke it open, and saw John and his two children. Ann Moulford followed her husband into the room, and while Charles watched John, she helped Eliza Wegener who was standing near the window into a cha...