By Maureen Anderson

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and round Durham spans 4 centuries, with over fifty bad stories of man's inhumanity to guy, that are similar within the pages of this e-book. within the early centuries superstition and lack of knowledge have been frequently the ability during which justice was once meted out. If it used to be believed crime had taken position, someone will be attempted, condemned and hanged by way of the facet of the line on not anything greater than the assertion of a neighbor. The 19th century observed the advance of the coal undefined. This introduced hundreds of thousands of impoverished males trying to find paintings. unfortunately , the wages have been usually spent on alcohol and ladies have been frequently not anything greater than punching luggage for the drunken abusive husbands as is the case of Dorothy Wilthew who was once murdered at Jarrow via her husband after years of abuse. different instances comprise; Joseph Hutchinson who murdered his brother and father at Sedgefield later he was once came upon to be insane, a baby was once abducted and later murdered via Isabella Thompson...

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Two bloodstained axes lay amongst the bloody and mutilated bodies of their three children. High Hill House Farm, 2003, known as Brass Farm in 1683. The author Mills, by his own confession, had murdered them for no reason except that ‘the enemy had suggested it’; the ‘enemy’ being the devil that had appeared to him in bodily form. His statement as to what had occurred was that he had been told to kill the family so he had entered the house brandishing an axe and had begun his attack. The records on which of the elder children was his first victim are conflicting.

It was thought this had been for the specific purpose of carrying out highway robberies. Hazlitt was tried for the robbery of the post-chaise on 16 August and found guilty. He was then tried for robbing the mail and also found guilty. When the trials were over Hazlitt sent the judge some bills that he had secreted in his coat sleeve. He said that it was the money from the mailbags and the rest of the letters were in a cornfield. All the letters were found at the spot indicated. Hazlitt’s execution was carried out on 18 September near Durham.

Isabella Thompson was sentenced to be detained at Her Majesty’s Pleasure. High Street in East Sunderland. Author’s collection Chapter 9 Highway Robbery 1855 Robert Stirling was twenty-six when he moved to Burnopfield and became an assistant to a surgeon, Mr Watson. The young man was said by the most eminent in his profession to be very amiable and to have considerable talent. Stirling had only been in the neighbourhood and his new employment for ten days when on 1 November he was sent to visit patients at The Spen and Thornley.

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