Murders

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High Street Murders 1598

Museum Ref No: PEO 364.1523
High Street Murders 1598 by Pat Wilnecker, published by the Borough of Poole Museums Service, 1980. Illus ISBN 0 86251 001 5
Book
Murder on Parkstone Heath, 1740
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Murder on Parkstone Heath, 1740

Extract from Salisbury Journal on 2nd December 1740 reporting the brutal murder of Joan Mew of Witchampton. Her body was discovered on the heath at Parkstone.
Newspaper
Murder on the Quay, 1752
newspaper

Murder on the Quay, 1752

Extracts from the Salisbury Journal 16th March and 3rd August 1752 describing the murder of widow Buckler, the arrest of Antony Colpis and his wife, their trial and subsequent punishment. Mrs Colpis was acquitted and her husband sentenced to death.
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