Tag Archives: Acton Suffolk

Murder in Acton; the final act

Posted on January 17, 2015 by ActonBooks

My search for more information — truth if you will — about a local murder from nearly 200 years ago is ended. I wanted to find out about why a girl who once lived just yards from where I am … Continue reading →

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Catherine Foster; the trial

Posted on January 12, 2015 by ActonBooks

The morning the Lent Assizes opened in Bury St Edmunds on Saturday March 27th 1847, 17-year-old Catherine Foster, dressed in deep mourning and ‘evincing little alarm at the awful position she stood in’, replied in a firm voice “not guilty” … Continue reading →

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Catherine Foster; the inquest

Posted on January 1, 2015 by ActonBooks

Just to recap (though it may assist you if you read this and the next couple of episodes by starting from the previous blog), the God-fearing young farm worker John Foster, a one-time neighbour o’mine, swallowed poison from his wife … Continue reading →

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5000 Spirits of a village, or the Layers of The Onion

Posted on December 28, 2014 by ActonBooks

Not a 100 yards from where I write this, in this sleepiest of sleepy Suffolk villages, a murder has been committed. The local paper, the East Anglian Daily Times, to which I am ever grateful for being a newspaper of … Continue reading →

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