'The Street’s Name Was Changed'

The family residing at 20 Leveson Street were well-respected, the young mother of two Mrs Ann Hinrichson and her husband John. Ann became pregnant and in March 1989 she started suffering from bouts of morning sickness, luckily her maidservant Mary Parr helped her run the household. Mary was as well as being a servant, was also a very good friend.
Ann had some empty rooms to let so she decided to take in a lodger, the rooms were soon taken by a young Irish-man named John Gleeson Wilson. He claimed that he was employed by the Dock Estate has a carpenter. Wilson actually was unemployed and had another lodging in Porter Street in the north of the city. He paid a local schoolboy a few pennies to deliver a letter addressed to himself at 20 Leveson Street and told the youngster to knock at the door and claim that the letter was from Wilson’s employer.
The next day a delivery-boy brought some items that Mrs Hinrichson had purchased and knocked at the door, but got no reply so he peeped through the letter-box, he could clearly see a pair of legs lying across the hallway. After managing to climb the railings and peer-in through the parlour-window, he could see that the room was spattered with blood. He sped has fast has his legs could carry him and found a policeman in St George’s Street, and screamed-out 'murder' by the time they had reached the house of horror, dozens of people had gathered outside of 20 Leveson Street. Some people were inside the murder house already after a neighbour had forced entry into the house, realising that something was wrong.
The police swarmed into the murder house and the first body to be found was Mrs Ann Hinrichson, her head had been smashed-in and she had several deep gashes in her chest and abdomen. The killer had made sure that he had killed the unborn child lying in her womb, blood was everywhere. In the parlour was the body of Mary Parr the maid, who died later at the Southern Hospital. Little Henry Hinrichson’s body was also in the parlour and in the cellar police found his younger brother John aged three, his throat had been slit from ear to ear. There was blood all over the walls and some of the policemen who found it too hard to take were excused from the scene.
The police found that a large sum of money belonging to the husband John Hinrichson had gone missing.
Wilson washed the blood from his person and clothes in the local park and then sold a watch to a pawnbroker in London Road, he then purchased a pair of trousers from a tailor in Gt Homer Street and then returned to his other lodgings in Porter Street. His next stop was Tranmere were he spent the night with is estranged wife and then for some strange reason returned to Liverpool.
He called at a watch dealer in Gt Howard Street and tried to sell a watch. The dealer was suspicious and informed his son who had a shop in Dale Street that he would send Wilson down to him for a make-believe watch and to collar him and hand him over to the police which his son managed to do.
John Gleeson Wilson was tried at the Liverpool Assizes on 23rd August 1849, Maurice Gleeson Wilson his actual name was sentenced to death. .
Ann Hinrichson and her unborn child and two young sons were buried, along with Mary Parr in the same grave in St Jame's Cemetery.

People made regular pilgrimages to 20 Leveson Street because of the gruesome murders and so the council decided to rename the thoroughfare Grenville Street and today Grenville Street South is all that remains.

Refer-Tom Slemen.