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TRUE CRIME FROM WHARNCLIFFE Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Series Barking, Dagenham & Chadwell Heath Barnsley Bath Bedford Birmingham More Foul Deeds Birmingham Black Country Blackburn and Hyndburn Bolton Bradford Brighton Bristol Cambridge Carlisle Chesterfield Cumbria More Foul Deeds Chesterfield Colchester Coventry Croydon Derby Durham Ealing Fens Folkstone and Dover Grimsby Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hampstead, Holborn and St Pancras Huddersfield Hull Jersey Leeds Leicester Lewisham and Deptford Liverpool London’s East End London’s West End Manchester Mansfield More Foul Deeds Wakefield Newcastle Newport Norfolk Northampton Nottingham Oxfordshire Pontefract and Castleford Portsmouth Rotherham Scunthorpe Southend-on-Sea Southport Staffordshire and the Potteries Stratford and South Warwickshire Tees Warwickshire Wigan York OTHER TRUE CRIME BOOKS FROM WHARNCLIFFE A-Z of London Murders A-Z of Yorkshire Murders Black Barnsley Brighton Crime and Vice 1800-2000 Durham Executions Essex Murders Executions & Hangings in Newcastle and Morpeth Norfolk Mayhem and Murder Norwich Murders Strangeways Hanged Unsolved Murders in Victorian & Edwardian London Unsolved Norfolk Murders Unsolved Yorkshire Murders Warwickshire’s Murderous Women Yorkshire Hangmen Yorkshire’s Murderous Women Please contact us via any of the methods below for more information or a catalogue WHARNCLIFFE BOOKS 47 Church Street, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S70 2AS Tel: 01226 734555 • 734222 • Fax: 01226 734438 email: [email protected] website: www.wharncliffebooks.co.uk Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Shrewsbury and Around Shropshire David John Cox First Published in Great Britain in 2008 by Wharncliffe Books an imprint of Pen and Sword Books Limited, 47 Church Street, Barnsley, South Yorkshire. S70 2AS Copyright © David J Cox, 2008 9781783408481 The right of David J Cox to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988. A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission in writing of the publishers. Typeset in Plantin and Benguiat by Pen and Sword Books Ltd Printed in the United Kingdom by Biddles Pen & Sword Books Ltd incorporates the imprints of Pen & Sword Aviation, Pen & Sword Maritime, Pen & Sword Military, Wharncliffe Local History, Pen & Sword Select, Pen & Sword Military Classics, Leo Cooper, Remember When, Seaforth Publishing and Frontline Publishing For a complete list of Pen & Sword titles please contact: PEN & SWORD BOOKS LIMITED 47 Church Street, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S70 2AS, England. E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk Table of Contents TRUE CRIME FROM WHARNCLIFFE Title Page Copyright Page Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 - ‘Almost to the extreme limit of legal memory’ Murder in Lilleshall 1203 Chapter 2 - ‘Be humble and obedient to your masters’ Forgery in Ludlow 1583 Chapter 3 - ‘A foul-smelling foul deed’ Erection of an illegal ‘house of office’ Hope Bowdler 1772 Chapter 4 - ‘Bank rags and worthless tokens’ Counterfeiting in Halesowen 1818 Chapter 5 - ‘Of all the murders that ever was heard of, this is the most shocking’ Infanticide in Bridgnorth 1823 Chapter 6 - ‘Brother appearing against brother, daughter against son, and son against mother’ Murder in Market Drayton 1827 Chapter 7 - ‘As mad as a hatter?’ Theft of cows’ tails in Osbaston 1830 Chapter 8 - ‘From Shrewsbury to Sydney and back again – and back again?’ Burglary in Shrewsbury 1832 Chapter 9 - ‘I have been murdered by a villain!’ Attempted Murder in Ludlow 1840 Chapter 10 - ‘Transportation for a pair of two - shilling shoes - or not?’ Theft at Whitchurch 1840 Chapter 11 - ‘Death in the Workhouse’ Murder in Bridgnorth 1852 Chapter 12 - ‘I have only one hand like him, and I will fight him’ Murder in Shrewsbury 1856 Chapter 13 - ‘A clever and successful enterprise’ Imposture in Shrewsbury 1864 Chapter 14 - ‘How could anyone so vile engage?’ Murder in Longden 1867 Chapter 15 - ‘Mice carrying matches’ Arson and Theft in Onibury 1875 Chapter 16 - ‘From what was told her, she had believed him to be dead’ Bigamy in Minsterley 1929 Conclusion Further Reading Index
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