By Nicola Sly
Life within the ancient county of Hampshire has no longer constantly been peaceable, for through the years it has skilled a variety of murders, a few of that are little identified outdoors the county borders, others that experience surprised the kingdom. those comprise the killing of 'Sweet Fanny Adams' in 1867; the bad homicide devoted by means of the postmaster at Grayshott in 1901; the mysterious poisoning of Hubert Chevis in 1943; and the gun conflict within the village of Kingsclere in 1944, which ended in the deaths of 3 humans. Nicola Sly's rigorously researched, well-illustrated and spell binding textual content will entice an individual drawn to the shady aspect of Hampshire's background, and may supply a lot nutrition for thought.
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It was fine and hot’ Alton, 1867 9. ‘I did it. It was an accident’ Aldershot, 1874 10. ‘I can prove there are some false witnesses here’ Kings Worthy, 1886 11. ‘Shhh, don’t talk, Joe. I’ve just killed a man’ Grayshott, 1915 12. ‘Your babies won’t worry you any more. You are a free woman’ Portsea, 1918 13. ‘My young brother has dropped dead’ Lower Wield, 1920 14. ‘Let’s play cowboys and Indians’ Aldershot, 1923 15. ‘I remember doing something, but cannot remember what’ Basingstoke, 1924 16. ‘I will do it again for the money’ Bordon, 1924 17.
4 ‘I AM COME TO GIVE MYSELF UP AS A MURDERER’ Portsea, 1847/1849 Life had not treated Mary Ann Beveridge well. She was married to a man who, if he wasn’t drinking in the beer houses of Portsea, was keeping company with his mistress, Mrs Bunter. Mary Ann had several children and in the Beveridge household there was very rarely sufficient money left to feed them properly, since her husband regularly drank it all away as soon as he was paid. Often Mary Ann had nothing but bread and water with which to feed her family and, if her life wasn’t miserable enough, for the past seven years she had been slowly going blind.
Stacey explained the presence of the blood by saying that he had become involved in a fight and had suffered a bloody nose. However, his arms were extensively cut and bruised and his knuckles swollen and it was suspected that Charity Joliffe had caused those injuries as she fought valiantly for her life with the broomstick. On the day after the murder, John Woodford, a convict, had found a large, very distinctive clasp knife with a horn handle at Portsea and handed it in to a guard. The knife was heavily bloodstained and had human hairs stuck to the dried blood on the blade.