Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Barnsley by Geoffrey Howse

Author:Geoffrey Howse
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bisac Code 1: TRU000000: TRUE CRIME / General
ISBN: eBook ISBN: 9781783378470
Publisher: Wharncliffe
Published: 2007-08-15T16:00:00+00:00

Come lass, let’s go home.

Hannah Fitton replied:

We are at home.

When she saw tears running down her husband’s face, Hannah asked:

Has he hurt thee?

He replied:

Yes.

A late Victorian view of New Street, Barnsley, where the inquest on the body of James Fitton was held at the Neptune public house on Saturday 2 July 1864. Chris Sharp of Old Barnsley

When she asked him where, he replied: ‘His head.’ Her husband never uttered a word again. She went to bed at about a quarter-past eleven and left him in what she thought was a sound sleep. At about one o’clock the following morning she went downstairs to see how he was and found him dead, in exactly the same position she had left him.

Mr John Blackburn, surgeon, stated that in conjunction with Dr Sadler he had made a post-mortem examination of the body. He had first been called out at about four o’clock on Thursday morning when he found the deceased man lying before the hearth, fully clothed and in a state of considerable rigor mortis. The Barnsley Chronicle reported a full transcript of the medical evidence, part of which said:

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