Murder of Florence Allinson

Florence Allinson, 37, was killed at The Orchards on January 18, 1906. (The Orchards was the name of the Strawbridge estate at that time.)

The articles are available through the New Jersey Mirror archive, made available by the Burlington County Library System. A search for "Florence W. Allinson" finds her obituary, which describes the discovery and state of her remains.


 "Another fiendish crime was added to Burlington county's list, already too long, on Thursday afternoon (presumably a reference to January 18, 1906) when the discovery was made that Miss Florence W. Allinson had been outraged and foully murdered in a barn at "The Orchards," a farm in the western end of Moorestown which she rented of Mrs. Esther W. Strawbridge. The condition of the dead woman indicated that she was first outraged, then strangled with a strap removed form a cow's blanket and beaten over the head with a club until her skull was frightfully crushed. The crime was committed between eleven o'clock in the morning and two o'clock in the afternoon, the discovery of the dead body having been made about the latter time by Benjamin Funk, a Bridgeboro oil man who had stopped at the house to leave the usual weekly supply. Funk entered the house and found no one there except little Bessie Walker, a five-year-old child whom Miss Allinson had adopted as a companion, they being the sole occupants of the farm during a greater part of the time."

A search for any occurrence of "Florence Allinson" returns some unrelated articles but also several obituary notices for her convicted killers, Johnson and Small - the first double-execution in Burlington County history.