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The casebooks of murder continue to be produced, usually in the red and black paper covers of True Crime. But murder, like imagination, has ‘a local habitation and a name’ - in SHAKESPEARE’S words. In this instance, that habitation is the county of Yorkshire. The chronicle of murders in that county covers not only the obvious settings of the new industrial towns which burgeoned in the boom decades of the Industrial Revolution, but also such locations as farms, shops, idyllic rural places such as Fewston Reservoir, and even in those modern centres of global tourism and ‘heritage industry’: YORK and the scenic Pennines.

Her lifestyle was very much a risky one, and she was prone to making misjudgements: one of these was taking in Calvert. When Waterhouse found that Calvert had stolen from her, she reported it, and it was after she failed to return to the police station that a constable went to check on her and found her body in the house. Calvert was the obvious suspect, and after making up some lies and excuses, clues led to her arrest and her being charged with the murder. The examination of her body to check on the pregnancy story (as with MARY BATEMAN) came to nothing and she had only one desperate ploy left - to confess to another murder.

Laura Carter BERRY, JAMES (HANGMAN) Berry was the Heckmondwike man who became one of the most successful executioners on record. He was in constant demand across the country from 1884 to 1891, and some of the most famous or infamous of his clients were Mary Lefley in Lincoln, the great Lipski case, Thomas Nash in Cardiff and John Purcell in Dublin. In Yorkshire, he hanged JAMES MURPHY in YORK, and wrote an account of this. ’ BILL O’JACKS MURDER Arguably, this is the most sensational and dramatic unsolved Yorkshire murder ever perpetrated.

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