Frances Ruscombe lay dead on the stairs, her throat cut and with a wound on her head so violent that the skull was pushed into the brain. Mary Sweet, more usually known as Mary Champness, was discovered in the back parlour, her head almost severed from her body, the skull cleaved as if with a wedge.
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Murder of Mrs Frances Ruscombe and Her Maid, In College Green A.D. 1764. [n.d., c.1842.] Letterpress pamphlet; 8vo, pp. 4, Glue stains. A ...
Unsolved Murders ... 28 Sep 1764. Place: College Green. Frances Ruscombe and Mary Sweet were beaten to death in the home of Frances Ruscombe at College Green.
... 1764, Mrs Frances Ruscombe and her maid, Mary Sweet, were brutally murdered. Thomas de Quincey, author of Confessions of an English Opium Eater, makes ...
Frances Ruscombe and Mary Sweet were beaten to death in the home of Frances Ruscombe at College Green.
The next murder referred to was that of Mrs. Frances Ruscombe and her maid-servant, Mary Champness, otherwise Sweet, which was committed September 28th, 1764.
Oct 12, 2013 · The city was horrified on the 27th September by the murder of Mrs. Frances Ruscombe, a lady living in College Green, and of her servant ...
Mrs Frances Ruscombe and her maid, Mary Champness, otherwise Sweet: A double murder at College Green ... On Thursday 27 September 1764, a spinster in late ...
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So much of the re-organisation at the museum has taken place in the last six months that the year preceding it fades to insignificance,.
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