Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in and Around Mansfield by Geoffrey Sadler

Author:Geoffrey Sadler
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783408313
Publisher: Wharncliffe
Published: 2013-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

Market Place, Shirebrook, showing former Market Hotel (now New Drum). The mining village of Shirebrook was home to both Mary Ann and her lover Edward Broughton. Dennis Middleton

Mr Williams made it plain that he shared their opinion, and when Broughton was recalled he conveyed his own dissatisfaction, together with that of the jury. He told the young man that he did not feel that Broughton had revealed everything he knew about the matter, and that while he could not be held criminally responsible for the death of Mary Ann, ‘yet morally he had been responsible to a great extent.’ Having been subjected to this very public rebuke, the engine-driver was allowed to leave the court.

Sadly, for Mary Ann Taylor, the inquest jury and its verdict were of no importance. Overcome by utter despair and the shame associated with the forthcoming birth of an illegitimate child, she had taken her own life and that of her unborn baby. The terrible, lingering death she chose is clear evidence of her desperate state of mind at the time. On that November day in the Jug and Glass, Mary Ann Taylor must surely have lost all hope, and believed that only death, however fearful, could free her from her torment. Whether she was right in thinking her lover had abandoned her, or had made a terrible mistake, we may never know. What is certain is that two young lives were tragically ended by a bottle of carbolic acid in Mansfield Woodhouse in the year 1902.

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