Yorkshire
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The Mysterious Case at Balby
On Tuesday, 22 March 1852, an inquest was held in the South Yorkshire village of Wadworth, on the body of 19-year-old Hannah Adams, ‘who had come to her death under circumstances of a very extraordinary and painful nature.’ Hannah Adams was employed as a housemaid by Mrs. Shepphard, in the village of Balby, a short Continue reading
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‘I Never Did Anything But Thump Her A Bit’: The Smithies Tragedy
Weekly Examiner, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. 27/03/1852 Early on the morning of Wednesday, 24 March 1852, Francis Atkinson was walking to work at a colliery in the South Yorkshire village of Smithies, when, passing along Carlton Lane, he discovered the bodies of a woman and a baby lying in an embrace, ‘weltering in a pool of Continue reading
Hellish Fiends, and Brutish Men 