Ada Chard-Williams, was a baby farmer, who, aged 24, was convicted of strangling to death 21 month old Selina Jones in Barnes in London in September 1899. Barnes is a place in south-west London in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and of the United Kingdom. ... 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

Florence Jones, a young unmarried mother, had read an advert in the local paper which offered to find adoptive homes for unwanted children. She agreed to pay £5 to a Mrs. Hewetson (Ada Chard Williams) but could only give her £3 on the day. Being an honest woman, she went back later with the balance and found that Mrs. Hewetson and Selina had vanished.

Florence reported the matter to the police. Williams wrote a letter to the police denying the crime but in effect admitting she was a baby farmer who bought and sold babies for profit. The police soon discovered that Mrs. Hewetson was really Ada Chard Williams. However, they had no body with which to prove there had been a murder, at least not until little Selina's corpse was washed up on the bank of the Thames at Battersea. Several places exist with the name Thames, and the word is also used as part of several brand and company names Most famous is the River Thames in England, on which the city of London stands Other Thames Rivers There is a Thames River in Canada There is a Thames... Battersea is a place in the London Borough of Wandsworth. ...

Like Amelia Dyer, Chard Williams had her own "signature" way of tying up bodies she wished to dispose of, using a knot called a Fisherman’s bend and which was a crucial piece of evidence at her trial at the Old Bailey on the 16th and 17th of February 1900. She went to her appointment with James Billington on the gallows in the execution shed in the yard of Newgate prison on Wednesday the 8 March 1900. The Old Bailey by Mountford (1907) The Central Criminal Court, commonly known as The Old Bailey (a bailey being part of a castle), is a Crown Court (criminal high court) in London, dealing with major criminal cases in the UK. It stands on the site of the mediaeval Newgate Gaol... James Hadley Billington (born June 1, 1929) is the current Librarian of Congress. ... Newgate was a gate in the west of London Wall round the City of London. ... March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in Leap years). ... 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday. ...

She was the last woman to be hanged at Newgate. She was suspected of killing other children although no further allegations were proceeded with. Newgate was a gate in the west of London Wall round the City of London. ...