“You knocked me down like a Bullock!” Wife beating and murder in the 1800s

by Jade Barber This post was originally posted here One night in mid April 1830, a surgeon was called to deliver a stillborn baby in Blackfriars, London. The mother of the child was Sarah Goulding, who died a few days later from complications caused by the miscarriage, which she insisted her husband, Daniel Goulding, had induced by beating…