Description: Photograph Notes: Scene of a murder in 1863. George Townley murdered Elizabeth Goodwin who lived with her 80 year old grandfather at the Grange.She had met Townley in Manchester and after several meetings they became engaged. During the summer of 1863 she had second thoughts and wrote to Townley breaking off the engagement. After an exchange of letters she agreed to meet Townley at Wigwell. On the day of the meeting they spent some time in the house before being seen to walk through the grounds and into the road,where Townley stabbed her in the throat with fatal consequences. He admitted the offence and was held at the Old Lock Up in Wirksworth prior to his trial at Derby Assizes later in the year. A plea of insanity was put forward. He was found guilty, but the judge wrote to the Home Secretary who granted a respite, while enquiries were made into his sanity. The sentence was eventually commuted to life imprisonment. The trial created quite a lot of interest as both people involved were members of the gentry. But when the verdict became known there was an uproar, the national press were outraged by what seemed an injustice. It appeared Townley had been able to avoid being hanged, as a result of privilege and a private enquiry. This so-called injustice did not last for long, as in February 1865, he committed suicide at Pentonville prison. Product Description: You will be buying a Photograph produced using professional photographic lab equipment and printed on high quality photographic paper. Please note that sometimes a small amount of image cropping is neccessary to produce your photograph. Some photographs may have areas of white space along the edges / border. Produced on a Print & Supply basis from an image previously made available on Geograph by the Copyright holder Condition: New Size: 6" x 4" - 150mm x 100mm Copyright (Photograph and Text in Photograph Notes): � Copyright Peter Barr and licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 details available here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Search our eBay Shop for other Photos Click Here Postage & Packing: All items are posted securely packaged with card inserts to avoid damage in the post hence the higher postage cost than the standard cost of a 1st / 2nd class stamp. We discount postage for multiple photographs and slides purchased, please wait for the invoice to be sent with the discounted postage rate applied.
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Location: Faversham
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