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  • The Sheffield Poisoning Case – The Artist, the Housekeeper and the Fatal Fowl (1881)

    The Sheffield Poisoning Case – The Artist, the Housekeeper and the Fatal Fowl (1881)
    Dec 5 2025

    The Sheffield Poisoning Case – The Artist, the Housekeeper and the Fatal Fowl (1881)
    News of the Times | Episode 586 |1881
    A quiet December dinner in Victorian Sheffield ends in horror — and a respected artist whispers his final words: “I am poisoned.”

    In today’s investigation, we unravel the 1881 case of Thomas Skinner, a brilliant Sheffield craftsman and etcher whose sudden collapse after a simple meal of fowl and onion stuffing sparked one of the most controversial poisoning mysteries of the Victorian age.

    At the centre of the storm stood his striking young housekeeper, Kate Dover — admired locally as “The Heeley Beauty” — whose purchases of arsenic, chloroform, and laudanum in the days before the tragedy drew the eyes of detectives, chemists, and an increasingly suspicious public.

    Was she a fellow victim?
    A naïve young woman caught in scandal?
    Or did forensic science — still in its infancy — uncover the truth?

    Join us as we explore:
    • The Victorian forensic tests that revealed arsenic in the stuffing
    • Conflicting medical testimony and the limits of 19th-century toxicology
    • A missing packet of poison
    • A mysterious £10 cheque found in the street
    • Trial drama, a shocking verdict, and a courtroom collapse
    • And the strange, quiet life Kate Dover lived after her release

    This episode blends historical investigation, forensic analysis, and archival reporting, drawing directly from 1881 newspaper accounts and court testimony.

    📜 Further Particulars:
    We close with a wonderfully absurd 1830 tale of a man whose thunderous snoring during a London church service caused such chaos that the beadle considered divine intervention the only possible explanation…

    👤 Narrated by Robin Coles

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  • The Abergavenny Christmas Massacre (1175) — The True Story Behind a Medieval Betrayal

    The Abergavenny Christmas Massacre (1175) — The True Story Behind a Medieval Betrayal
    Dec 3 2025

    The Abergavenny Christmas Massacre (1175) — The True Story Behind a Medieval Betrayal
    News of the Times | Episode 585 | 1175

    Step into the frozen winter of 1175, when a Christmas peace gathering at Abergavenny Castle turned into one of the most shocking betrayals in medieval Britain.
    This is the real story behind a massacre so infamous that historians believe it helped inspire Game of Thrones’ Red Wedding.

    In this episode, we uncover:
    • William de Braose, the marcher lord with a score to settle
    • Seisyll ap Dyfnwal, the Welsh chieftain lured into a deadly trap
    • A Christmas feast where weapons were surrendered… and treachery waited behind the door
    • The brutal aftermath that set Wales ablaze with vengeance
    • The chilling curse said to have followed the de Braose family for generations

    From Marcher politics to clan loyalty, from massacre to medieval “justice,” this is Dark December at its bleakest.

    And in our Further Particulars:
    A disastrous 1738 case from Faversham, where a man “testing for witchcraft” proved that superstition is dangerous…
    but stupidity is lethal.

    If you enjoy historical true crime, medieval history, forensic folklore, and long-form storytelling, this episode is made for you.

    🕯 Settle in — and maybe don’t accept any Christmas invitations from Norman lords.
    This is News of the Times.

    🧐Hosted by Robin Coles

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    1693: The Poplar Witch - Mary Compton | 166
    https://youtu.be/SJ9HUQFw7cU

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  • The Wife Killer of Watchfield: The Brutal Case of John Carter (1893)

    The Wife Killer of Watchfield: The Brutal Case of John Carter (1893)
    Dec 1 2025

    The Wife Killer of Watchfield: The Brutal Case of John Carter (1893)
    News of the Times | Episode 584 | 1893
    In 1893, the quiet Berkshire hamlet of Watchfield discovered a horror hiding in plain sight.
    Rhoda Carter — a young wife with no reason to run — vanished overnight. Her husband, John Carter, insisted she’d gone to tend her pregnant sister. But every part of his story began to crumble.

    A locked washhouse.
    A fire burning far too hot for a July night.
    A nine-year-old boy woken by thuds, cries, and something heavy dragged down the stairs.
    And beneath the blacksmith’s floor… a shocking discovery that shook the entire county.

    What no one realised at first was this:

    Rhoda was John Carter’s third wife — and the last in a disturbing pattern of women who died or disappeared around him.

    In today’s episode, we follow the investigation step-by-step — from neighbours’ whispered suspicions, to the police search, to the inquest that exposed a brutal killing, and finally to the execution that confirmed Carter as one of Berkshire’s most chilling murderers.

    This case would become so notorious that John Carter’s wax figure stood for years in Madame Tussaud’s Chamber of Horrors.

    Along the way, we also explore the extraordinary Victorian reporting that surrounded the case — including a wonderfully outraged commentary from the Illustrated Police News, who never missed a chance for melodrama.

    So sit back, settle in, and let us take you to Watchfield, Berkshire, 1893 — a place where life moved slowly… until the night it didn’t.

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  • The Kidsgrove Tragedy: Murder, Madness, and the Man Who Vanished Into Himself”

    The Kidsgrove Tragedy: Murder, Madness, and the Man Who Vanished Into Himself”
    Nov 29 2025

    The Kidsgrove Tragedy: Murder, Madness & the Vanished Mind | Staffordshire, 1911
    News of the Times | Episode 582 |1911

    In October 1911, the quiet mining town of Kidsgrove was shaken to its core.
    Inside a secluded villa, three people — a widow, her four-year-old daughter, and their 16-year-old servant — were found brutally murdered. No forced entry. No screams. Just silence… until an eight-year-old child came running for help.

    The prime suspect? Karl Kramer — a German labourer with a forged identity, a borrowed bicycle, and a suspicious amount of stolen silver jingling in his pockets.
    But when the police finally caught him, a disturbing question emerged:

    Was Kramer a calculated killer… or a man whose mind had simply vanished?

    This episode follows the manhunt across counties, the extraordinary behaviour of the accused in custody, and the courtroom spectacle that left a jury trying not what the man had done — but whether he knew anything at all.

    A chilling story of murder, madness, and a fugue state that baffled doctors, magistrates, and the Edwardian press.

    🔎 Featuring:
    • The shocking crime at Avenue Villa
    • Witness sightings and the frantic police chase
    • Kramer’s shifting identity and sudden “collapse”
    • Courtroom confusion over sanity vs. shamming
    • The extraordinary decision that sent him to Broadmoor

    If you enjoy intelligent historical true crime, forensic missteps, and strange Edwardian tragedies, this episode will be right up your cobblestone street.

    Stay to the end for today’s Further Particulars:
    A nine-year-old boy, a bit of pocket money, and one extremely deceased mother —
    proving that some Edwardian “playdates” should really come with a parental advisory.

    It’s grim… but in a way the Victorians would have confidently labelled “character-building."

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  • Yarmouth’s Darkest Day Since the Plague | The 1845 Bridge Disaster

    Yarmouth’s Darkest Day Since the Plague | The 1845 Bridge Disaster
    Nov 26 2025

    Yarmouth’s Darkest Day Since the Plague | The 1845 Bridge Disaster
    News of the Times | Episode 581 | 1845

    What began as a light-hearted Victorian spectacle — a clown in a tub drawn by four geese — became one of the worst civilian disasters in British history.

    In 1845, hundreds gathered on Great Yarmouth’s suspension bridge to witness a novelty act. Within minutes, the bridge collapsed, sending a crowd — mostly women and children — plunging into the River Bure. Nearly 100 people lost their lives in a tragedy the press would call “a judgment too dreadful to be forgotten.”

    In this episode, we uncover:
    The bizarre origins of the event
    Eyewitness horror and miraculous escapes
    The haunting aftermath: legal confusion, public grief, and buried truths
    How one young survivor described stabbing his way to safety beneath the water

    And in this week’s Further Particulars, we leave tragedy behind to share the most curious Victorian headlines of 1845 — from exploding cotton bales to a pheasant illegally entering a workhouse.
    Frankly, it's the best Victorian Twitter feed we’ve ever read.

    📜 Join us as we walk the fog-bound quays of Yarmouth on its darkest day. A story of broken chains, a grieving town, and a spectacle gone terribly, fatally wrong.

    👤 Hosted by Robin Coles

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    📚 Related cases from the archive:
    1845: The Shapwick Poisoner - Sarah Freeman | Ep175
    https://youtu.be/NfR4QR2uqGE
    1845 - 1895: Fatal Attractions | Ep177
    https://youtu.be/CHRQZJ486mo
    1842: Bad Daniel Good | Ep188
    https://youtu.be/B4YxkMmmpDU

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  • Murder in Uniform: The Death of William Glass and the Hanging of Inspector Montgomery

    Murder in Uniform: The Death of William Glass and the Hanging of Inspector Montgomery
    Nov 24 2025

    Murder in Uniform: The Death of William Glass and the Hanging of Inspector Montgomery
    News of the Times | Episode 580 | [1871 - 1873
    🔍 A Victorian bank clerk found butchered. £1,600 in notes vanished. And standing at the centre of the storm? A decorated police inspector with debts, secrets... and a very damp coat.

    In 1871, the quiet Irish town of Newtownstewart was shattered by a murder so brutal — and so unexpected — it dominated headlines across the Empire. But when the evidence began to point not to a stranger… but to the very man charged with protecting the town, the story turned from tragedy to national scandal.

    👮‍♂️ Three trials. A buried cache of bloodstained notes. A murder weapon pulled from the undergrowth. And one of the most extraordinary prosecutions in British legal history.

    In today’s News of the Times, we dive deep into the case of Inspector Thomas Hartley Montgomery, the only serving Irish police officer ever executed for murder.

    And in today's end of episode further particulars story...
    At the end of this harrowing tale of betrayal and bloody justice, we bring you a story of crime on a very different scale:

    A Halloween prank. A Glasgow cinema display. And a gang of 13-year-old fashion bandits who left poor Harold Lloyd trouserless in a shop window.

    Because nothing says “festive mischief” quite like grand theft flannel.

    ☕ Settle in with a strong brew and join us for this atmospheric journey into betrayal, justice, and the terrifying question: What happens when the murderer wears the uniform of trust?

    👤 Narrated by Robin Coles

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    📚 Related cases from the archive:
    1874: Family Killings in Ripon | Ep210
    https://youtu.be/pl8viuZayD4
    1872: The Bermondsey Tragedy | Ep212
    https://youtu.be/R5Xo4gsu4Ig
    1872: The Murder at Great Coram Stree | Ep224
    https://youtu.be/lXJWjOTjNM8

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  • The Ardlamont Mystery: Murder, Money, and the Missing Man

    The Ardlamont Mystery: Murder, Money, and the Missing Man
    Nov 21 2025

    The Ardlamont Mystery: Murder, Money, and the Missing Man
    News of the Times | Episode 579 | 1893

    Scotland, 1893 — A young aristocrat lies dead on a hunting estate. His tutor claims it was a tragic accident. But as investigators dig deeper, a tangled web of insurance policies, disappearing witnesses, and suspicious identities begins to unravel.

    🔍 Who was the enigmatic "Edward Scott"?
    💼 Why was a life insurance policy taken out just days before the death?
    🧠 And what did the famed Dr Joseph Bell — the real-life inspiration for Sherlock Holmes — conclude when he examined the evidence?

    In this gripping tale of privilege, planning, and misdirection, we uncover the true story behind one of the most mysterious deaths of the Victorian age — and the courtroom drama that followed.

    📜 Featuring:

    Greedy tutors
    Vanishing witnesses
    An inheritance at stake
    And the curious forensic mind of Dr Bell…

    💀 Did justice prevail — or did a killer walk free?

    🐇 Further Particulars: The Ghost Rabbit That Shoots Back
    And finally — as a curious footnote to our tale of hunting and misadventure — we bring you a moonlit story from Cornwall involving a haunted churchyard, a full pub, and a white rabbit that absolutely refuses to be shot.

    One poor soul tried.He lost.To a rabbit.
    True story. Victorian weirdness at its finest.

    🎩Hosted by Robin Coles

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    📚 Related cases from the archive:
    1896: The Murder of Emma Hunt: Cold Case or Victorian Injustice? | EP514
    https://youtu.be/WHgRw1RSC9w
    1893: The Inheritance Scandal of Lady Gooch: Fake Pregnancy, Stolen Baby, and a £3.8 Million Estate | EP533
    https://youtu.be/t59vycUkFP0

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  • 1631Spectral Evidence: The Chilling Case of Anne Walker’s Ghost | A Notorious November Episode

    1631Spectral Evidence: The Chilling Case of Anne Walker’s Ghost | A Notorious November Episode
    Nov 19 2025

    Spectral Evidence: The Chilling Case of Anne Walker’s Ghost | A Notorious November Episode
    News of the Times | Episode 579 | 1631
    In 1630s County Durham, the dead didn’t just whisper… they testified.

    This is the gothic true crime story of Anne Walker — a young servant girl who vanished, only for her ghost to return, describe her murder, name her killers, and send shockwaves through a superstitious society. Incredibly, the courts listened. And a conviction followed.

    In an era before fingerprints or forensics, “spectral evidence” was taken seriously — and in this case, it led to the gallows. Was it justice? Superstition? Or something stranger still?

    Join us as we uncover a forgotten case where the veil between life and death thinned just enough… for a voice to cross it.

    🕯️ Part of our Notorious November series exploring infamous, eerie, and unjust cases from the past.

    👻 Further Particulars:
    If you think a ghost naming her killer is the strangest thing you’ll hear today, wait until a reaper with a sickle meets a Welsh clergyman, a vanishing horseman, and a suspiciously well-timed “Amen.”

    There’s divine intervention, roadside skulduggery, and possibly the politest haunting on ecclesiastical record. The Lord moves in mysterious ways. So, it seems, do mysterious men on white horses.

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    👤 Hosted by Robin Coles

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