The “Brides in the Bath” case reached a climax today as George Joseph Smith was found guilty of murder at the Old Bailey. As the report on page 9 reveals, it took the jury less than half an hour to find him guilty of killing “one of the three women with whom he went through a form of marriage, and who died in baths,” which was sufficient to give him the death penalty, pronounced to a courtroom with a larger attendance than on previous days with women, “as usual in these times, forming a very large proportion of the spectators.”