When a young boy called Frank Clarke, aged 13, found a woman's hat on Bathampton Down on 7th August 1891, a bank holiday, it started off a mystery that still has many baffled! Frank, who was there playing with several school-friends, brought home the hat and gave it to his mother, who with presentiment of a tragedy said, “I believe it belongs to someone who has been murdered, it shan’t stop in the house” the boy accordingly took it to the Police-station. Find outwhat happened next in this amazing story that shocked the nation! THIS PODCAST This podcast has been specially edited from a Bradley Stoke Radio show in Bristol, England. If you liked it please leave a rating and maybe a comment and if you’d like to support the show with a donation, however small, you can go to https://ko-fi.com/backtrackeruk (Ko-Fi.com) Some more great news for you, if you were interested in buying merchandise featuring the show’s logo, then pop over to https://www.teepublic.com/en-gb/stores/the-backtracker-history-show?utm_campaign=17652&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=The%2BBacktracker%2BHistory%2BShow (Teepublic.com), search for The Backtracker History Show, and you’ll find lots of things to choose from.
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SOURCES Newbury Weekly News and General Advertiser - Thursday 19 October 1893 Toronto Daily Mail - Saturday 28 October 1893 Ancestry.com Western Mail - Friday 06 October 1893 Children's Homes http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/ Evening Herald (Dublin) - Tuesday 26 September 1893 London Evening Standard - Wednesday 18 October 1893 http://elsieadelineluke.blogspot.com/p/bath-chronicle-14th-december-1893.html (http://elsieadelineluke.blogspot.com/p/bath-chronicle-14th-december-1893.html) Swindon Advertiser and North Wilts Chronicle - Saturday 16 December 1893 Bristol Mercury - Saturday 04 November 1893 Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 14 December 1893
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