Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Cardiff by Mark Isaacs

Author:Mark Isaacs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bisac Code 1: TRU000000: TRUE CRIME / General
ISBN: eBook ISBN: 9781783037445
Publisher: Wharncliffe
Published: 2009-06-17T16:00:00+00:00

The enigmatic Harriet Stacey. An outwardly respectable middle-aged woman, she was to take on several identities, becoming something of all things to all people person. Author’s collection

In the twilight gloom of that fateful February evening, agitated by the fact that his close friend Mrs Stacey had relayed no prior warning of her forthcoming ‘absence’, William Henry Warren had only managed to gain entry to her home at the third attempt. Failing to turn the latch as usual he contrived to file down his own front door key to turn the lock. Constable Francis Scowcroft, alerted whilst walking his beat on nearby Tudor Street, was the first policeman at the scene. He wasn’t alone for long as the local constabulary took his findings very seriously. At first the investigation was headed up by Inspectors Yelland and Butler from the local Grangetown Police Station. With an admission of growing uncertainty considerable extra manpower was drafted in under the supervision of two senior detectives from the Central Police station and the summoning of Marmaduke Pittard, divisional police surgeon.

Having the misfortune of being the individual who discovered the corpse, Warren was detained and questioned half-heartedly for only a few hours. Eloquently protesting his innocence, he was described as being ‘gentle as a lamb’ by Harriet Stacey’s neighbour who believed him to be her brother. Displaying shock and tenderness towards the dead woman, he emphatically refused to criticise the police for his brief incarceration. On his release and elimination as a suspect the investigating officers were left grasping at straws. Of the only other two named associates of the deceased (both her ‘Hereford’ and ‘Cardiff’ husbands) neither could ever have been realistically considered as the culprit. Intriguingly, while still a suspect (however short-lived) it is suggested that Warren was asked by an associate if he suspected that a certain person was the killer of Harriet Stacey. He hesitantly responded ‘I should like to know where that person is’. Whomever he was referring to we shall never know as this matter was never broached at the inquest. It leaves hanging in the air yet another tantalising thread whose potential value to the enquiry will be forever unknown.

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