‘Westminster Horror’

Violent death—accidental or otherwise—has always played a grim role in our past. Time and again, newspaper headlines have heralded tragedy.

Certainly one of the saddest cases on record is that of the ‘Westminster Horror.’

This particularly brutal crime had begun months before in Australia where Jenny Anderson had succumbed to the charms of an unnamed Lothario. Upon her accepting his proposal he’d paid for her passage to BC where they were to be married.

Alas, what awaited her in Vancouver was anything but that which she’d hoped for. 

The sad story of Jenny Anderson in this week’s BC Chronicles. 

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PHOTO:  New Westminster where poor Jenny Anderson met her end at the hands of a drug-crazed killer. —BC Archives