 Martin and the landlady at 3 Swaton Road , Elizabeth Haynes , described Bury as a violent drunk . On 7 April 1888 , Haynes caught Bury kneeling on his bride of five days threatening to cut her throat with a knife . Haynes subsequently evicted them , and Ellen sold one of six £ 100 shares in a railway company that she had inherited from a maiden aunt , Margaret Barren , to pay William 's debt to Martin . William was re @-@ employed by Martin , and the couple moved to 11 Blackthorn Street , close to Swaton Road . According to Martin , William was then suffering from venereal disease . In June , Ellen sold the remaining shares , and in August they moved to 3 Spanby Road , adjacent to where William stabled his horse . With the money from the shares , the couple had a week 's holiday in Wolverhampton with a drinking friend of William 's and Ellen bought new jewellery . William continued to assault his wife throughout the latter half of 1888 . By the first week of December , Ellen 's windfall was nearly spent , and William sold his horse and cart . In January the following year , he told his landlord at 3 Spanby Road that he was thinking of emigrating to Brisbane , Australia , and asked him to make two wooden crates for the journey . Instead , William and Ellen moved to Dundee in Scotland . Ellen was not keen to go and only did so after William lied that he had obtained a position in a jute factory there . 
