The Tabernacle Street Murder: Norwich's Bloodiest Crime.
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- čas přidán 18. 12. 2020
- Norwich June 1851 A women's body parts are found all over the city but who was she? Who killed her and why? It would take almost 20 years to find the answers. When a shocking confession was made.
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In the early 1970s I attended a lecture given by Jean Kennedy, then the Norwich archivist. She said that she had had a letter from a family in Australia who were enquiring about a relation of theirs who was thought to have been hung in Norwich for sheep-stealing in the 1860s, and asking whether she could confirm the story. Jean told us that she had easily traced details of the case but that it had involved a gruesome murder with body parts deposited in different places in the city and so she wrote back saying that she could find no details of executions for sheep stealing in Norwich. I guess it is the same case.
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Wow, I have never heard that before, it must be the same case, I have never heard of anything else like it happening in the city.
I’ve grown up in Norwich, thanks for this 😇
Piece of local history well researched and presented.
Our host is very good at what he does on his excellent channel!!!🙏👌👻❣️
Brilliant, I am a Norwich girl and never heard about this murder, so interesting
Bit of extra info I have since found out, the site of Tabernacle street is now where the Law Courts are.
I live in Norwich all my life (female 37)and I live not to far from anglia square near the law court very interesting very well read
Having an avid interest in history and the local area, I'm surprised to have not come across this before. But what a fantastic, coherent and well researched video! A tragic yet intriguing tale, well executed and done so in a respectful way. Subbed.
Thank you, I'm glad you liked
Totally agree, this one got past me too! Only down side was my tea got cold because I got so engrossed in this! 😆👍
@@mama_b_7525 Then I would recommend that you summon your maidservant and instruct her to bring a fresh pot without delay.
@@ian_b 🤣👍
@@ian_b and don't forget the rich tea! 🤣👍
Amazing how often dog walkers figure in these cases, maybe the police should set up a dog walking business.
@Real Thailand hehe nice one.
@Real Thailand Bad dum tishhhhh
In the USA it's mostly hunters or fishermen who find murder victims.
@@robertsollory7475 That makes sense I guess,thx for the info.
That’s a great idea! It’s always dog walkers.
I've just stumbled across your channel and I'm really pleased I did. I've been binge watching your uploads , they are all so well made 😊
Thank you
Thanks .there are other historical murders in Norwich ,some more uploads on these would be great .👍👍
They are planned don't worry just don't want to do just murders in the same way I don't want to do just war stories or disasters.
@@alittlebitofhistory en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Norwich
Great narration, thanks. I'd never heard of this case before and found it fascinating, particularly the twist at the end with the descendants!
Thoroughly researched and very interesting, thank you.
Wonderful presentation! I am very glad that CZcams sent this to me today. I will be following you from now on. Again, thank you for a great presentation! A lot of work went into this! 👏👍
Thank you very much.
Excellent video. Never heard of this before.
I'm a new subscriber and I very much enjoyed this video. I can't wait to see what's next. 👍
Thanks to CZcams algorithm I stumbled upon this video and was immediately engrossed and subscribed!!
While I have a fascination with true crime I am very drawn to 19th century crimes. Th development of forensics and how crimes were solved this early is interesting. (I'm a science geek-molecular geneticist and veterinarian.)
You have a wonderful ability to tell a story and well researched. I feel like we just had a cupbof coffee together and you told me a fascinating piece of history
Just found your channel. Pleasant surprise. Subscribed.
Excellent video!
I just found your channel thanks to the interesting cover art. Now I have binge watched multiple episodes. Your work is so well done! New sub!
Thank you and welcome
Just discovered ur channel, subscribed. Thanks
Thank you very much
A really really good presentation.
Fascinating story! Thank you!
I love those old newspaper illustrations that go along with a story. Esp the jack the ripper ones.
Thank you for uploading this. I never knew this story. Norwich is a fascinating city. All the best from a secret admirer from Ipswich. 💙🤍
Great researched case. Had you know you were a local as you pronounced wymondham right, :) keep up the great work and look forward to more cases.
Haha yeah its one of those places that catches out though who don't know
@@alittlebitofhistory Though not 'gaol' pronounced 'jail'
I heard this story on a Norwich Ghost Walk (highly recommended btw, lots of fun), but this is a much more detailed account. Very interesting!
Thank you Vicki I'm glad you like it, I have always wanted to do one thoughts just never found the time.
Wow, having spent many years growing up between South London and Lowestoft, I'd never heard this story! You'd think with my grannys family coming from Fakenham and the surrounding area since the 1700's, it would have been talked about! Poor woman, I wonder if her decendants even know? East Anglians love telling gruesome stories of days gone by, thank you for one 👍
Gaol is still pronounced 'jail'.
Sorry for the late reply of saw this comment when replaying to another, I will hold my hands up and say I didn't know that had only ever seen it written I will be saying it correctly from here on out. Many thanks
@@alittlebitofhistory Earlier subscriber got in first. English spelling and pronunciation is peculiar and you have every excuse to misprounce if you have never learnt this before. You are more lightly to spell it JAIL from seeing American films and cartoons.
I’m a native speaker who’s lived in the U.K. for all of my 43 years, and I didn’t know that 😔
@@thesmoog734 In modern usage JAIL and GAOL are both used but the former dominates. (Bloody Americanism). To be honest GAOL is only seen in Victorian novels and old posters.
@@derekcouzens9483 the irony lol lol
Third video watched. Subscribed. I thought I couldn't do without music, but the pace and pictures leave nothing missing. Your research appears to thorough. I think I'll do something similar for Michigan, but I don't have a channel name, yet.
Thank you, the reason for no music is I simply don't know how that works on copy right grounds. As for staring a similar channel for where you live I actively encourage it all the best. :)
Mystery and mayhem in Michigan ?
If you start one, I'd love to watch! I have awful insomnia and am always running out of new videos. 😊
@@sarahadair7320 small towns especially have a lot of interesting skeletons hidden. (As well as a lot of small town nepotism).
And about might be surprised if you look into some local history.
My tiny town in Indiana just across from Louisville KY was often a passageway for underground railroad. We have an all black cemetery (being neglected) which closed in 1853.
Also being across the river from Louisville we had ties to Capone. A sleak easy across the Ohio River with a back exit and false walls!
I'm a new subscriber. What a great video and channel! If you are interested in some constructive criticism I would say consider slowing down the delivery slightly. I really enjoyed this though.
Always willing to take constructive criticism, I am now working on that.
Thanks for responding. I just glanced at the other comments now and I sae you responded to this before. Didn't mean to pile on! I really think you're gonna go far this will be a million (at least) subscriber channel. The way you curate interesting historical events is wonderful.
Very well presented, thank you. You talk very fast but very clearly.
I am hearing that alot especially on this video I am now working on trying to slow down a little bit
I am hearing that alot especially on this video I am now working on trying to slow down a little bit
@@alittlebitofhistory people can always slow down your video
Amazing story, I think my great grandad rented space at the pub on Oak Street they talk about. Probably about 50 years later mind.
Very interesting story. Have never heard of it.
Just to say how very much I enjoye you videos.
I love Norfolk but hate what is happening to it.
Very interesting video. I wonder if you might do a video about watercolorist Frank Halliday who had a radio program called Painting on the Radio in Norfolk please. Thx very much. 🥰
Absolutely fascinating, very tragic yes, but so fascinating, thank you Little Bit of History!!!🙏😢⚖️🤔❣️
A very interesting if somewhat disturbing and macabre story of a heinous act of barbaric murder, a murder that if he had been of a stronger disposition he would have gotten away with, especially as the police were inept, lazy, or both, and the surgeons were just as bad, although they might be excused somewhat as forensic science wasn’t exactly at the pinnacle of expertise that it is today, but I am glad his conscience got the better of him. Thanks for sharing another excellent episode, interesting and entertaining in a weird way. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴🏴
Very interesting but if history. Well read too.
An interesting video about a very sad piece of The Fine City’s history.
Thank you very much
"I've been searching all day and not found a single part."
"Here, let me give you a hand."
wow,, never heard of this case and I am an avid true crime fan. Nice one
I have lived in and around Norwich all my life and I hadn't heard about it until looking for ideas for the channel.
If they were bankrupt, how did he have 400 pounds! And why wouldn't he need to live on that and instead give it to a pawn broker?! And why wouldn't Mr. Christie give them own money back?! That's crazy! And why wouldn't he give it to the guy's wife? Ok, there's something I'm not getting from this story.
I will be 100% honest I'm not sure where it came from, It might be a case of he decaled himself bankrupt while still having money that he then hid to keep it safe by giving it to his boss for safe keeping, back then if the money wasn't in a known bank account or in your own home it would be next to impossible to find. Why Mr Christie wouldn't give it back there is 2 reasons that come to mind, it might be he realised that William was bad with money and the more he gave him the quicker he would go though it or possibly as pawn brokers were not exactly the most trust worthy people in the Victorian era he had pretty much spent it all himself or used it in his business.
He wouldn't be the first person to hide money from their creditors
Bull , £ 400 is a massive number of notes .
A little slower would've been nice, but a nice piece of history. Thank you
You are far from the first to point it out, don't worry it has been taken on board and is something I'm now working on.
Hello I watch on CZcams and press the 3 dots to the tight top of screen, playback speed is shown, click and slow it down or speed up. His videos are perfect one slower than normal. O hope this helps.
Wonder video thank you x
If you could talk a little slower, that would be helpful. I'm American, but I'm having trouble keeping up with you and thankfully, there are closed captions. Thank you for this great story!
You are not the first to bring it up its something I'm working on part of it is I am kind of restricted on the time I have to record so have to try and speed though, another part is me over editing gaps and breaths out. Thank you for the feedback I'm glad you enjoyed it the best you could.
Thanks!
Great video well narrated. FYI gaol is pronounced jail
I have since been told, at the time I had only seen it written.
No problem. It's only because I'm old that I knew 👍
Very interesting.😃
I grew up in Norwich
Wow.
Yikes, what an awful murder! TY 🌸
I'm really enjoying your content and I don't wish to detract from your work but "gaol" is merely the English spelling of "jail" and is pronounced in the same way.
Thanks for the feed back, it is something I have since been informed of and have corrected my self in more recent videos :)
@@alittlebitofhistory I hope you don't feel that I was nit-picking. I'm really enjoying your channel and I'm binge watching!
@@grendelgrendelsson5493 No not at all, I am always happy to get feed back , welcome to the channel
Gaol is pronounced jail. It's the British spelling for jail (the American spelling).
I enjoyed the video!
I have since been informed and corrected in later videos.
@@alittlebitofhistory Yea, I noticed others had already corrected you after I commented. Must be a bit of a pain.
Fascinating, but the voice is far far to fast, is it a computer?
My computer does do this thing where it speeds up my voice at time sometime to the extent where I sound like Alvin and the chipmunks and I have to re do a clip, but that kind of irrelevant it is a problem that I am trying to work on and slow down my speaking in general to make it more clear for people.
I wondered that as he mispronounced "gaol", most real people know it's the same as "jail" probably just a youngster/foreigner if not a robot?
@@isladurrant2015 As I have explained it was word I had only ever seen written I went for what I thought was right and that was incorrect. I have been corrected and will being using jail going forward. Terrible sorry if this means I don't meet the standards of a real person.
Doesn't sound like he would have been caught, just couldn't live with what he had done.
5:58 where the carriage is placed off to stage right*, driving up the road, that's where the Tesco's is. I shouted at a fella handing out "socialist star" news papers there just a few days ago.
Ayy dude, I work in that Tesco’s and we love to take the piss outta those Marxists who stand outside who hand out those flyers
@@ryanm.191 Love it haha that put a smile on my face. I go to that Tesco's regularly on my way to the gym, thanks for all the hard work you and your team do 👍
@@guardianblackdog8303 ah we do fuck all in there tbh. We love to do things like hand out coupons and drop coins in front of them. They’re there every Saturday midday onwards
Gaol is pronounced the same as jail.
He can’t pronounce Martineau either , despite having worked in Norwich
The only reason I wanted to watch this is bc I live on norwich
Thank you and as you are local I will add a bit of info I didn't have then recording, Tabernacle street was located where the Law Courts now stand near the Adam and Eve pub.
Horrible times back then . Having said that these murderous actions still happen today, but today’s forensics are quick to assess who, why, how and when.
But not to punish accordingly.
Finally where I live
As you are local you may find it interesting and some what fitting, I said that Tabernacle street was demolished years ago well I have now found out where it was the site of this murder is now right by the Law Courts.
Would you cover the murder of Emma Elizabeth Smith?
Its a very horrible case from the time of the Ripper.
I have just taken a quick look and Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the area of the county I cover in my videos.
How odd her family didn't claim her remains.
Loved the video but I had to shift into speed listening.
It has been pointed out and I am working on improving that, I really lover edited that video and removed pretty much all pauses a mistake on my part.
Anybody notice a pattern here ,
Yarmouth shoelace murder = Londoner
Norwich tabernacle murder = Londoner
Yay! Found a new history channel with a dark side 😍
This is a very grizzly account and it's fascinating to know how these kids of horrific murders happen even in this day and age.
Let me correct myself, it's not fascinating that these things are happening today it's incredibly horrifying!
It's ok I knew what you meant.
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Why call the 18th century the 19th century.
Wonderful to see this story, one plea , please could you s l o w down a little bit for those of us who may have hearing disabilities ? Thank you so much 😊 🌹❤️
It has been pointed out and is something I am working on partly me taking a bit to fast and partly my over editing, after I have heard a clip 8 or 9 time a 3 second pause seem like forever when of course it really isn't for a first time listener.
@@alittlebitofhistory
Oh , Thank you so much for reading and replying to me . What a sweetheart you are !
I do understand what you mean , however, I appreciate the details you’ve taken so much of your time to discover. It must be a labour of love. Currently, my son in law from South Korea is visiting, I’m sure he will be very interested in your channel as he loves visiting Norwich ! Take care and hope you have a great weekend . 👵🏼🐈from me and my moggy 🌹❤️
@@christinethornhill you can select to slow down the video. Tap on the video....select the three vertical dots in the upper right corner...Tap on "playback speed"...select 75%-
Law & Order. Constabulary. Police.
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maybe it wasn't a murder maybe she just slipped on something and fell, repeatedly on a sharp clever till she was accidentally in pieces, when someone with an over active imagination found her and jumped to all sorts of conclusions, no?
Excellent vid Sir, I applauded your research on this very interesting subject!.. however.. it's driving me nuts hearing you pronounce gaol as "gail". Even though it is spelt differently to the modern word "jail".. it is pronounced exactly the same way.. GAOL = JAIL ;)
I has since been pointed out to be and been corrected in more recent videos
So his guilt lasted just long enough to tell about it and the thought of the gallows cured him of it.
Age does not matter. This scoundrel had no business getting married in the first place!
Well done. May I make a suggestion? Take a deep breath & then read, slower.
It is something I am working to improve, a big problem with this video was more over editing, where I cut a lot of the pauses out.
@@alittlebitofhistory - Your voice is lovely for this. And if we're here, we have time to take in the story as it unfolds. Stay safe & thank you for the work you put into this. Much enjoyed.
"supposed murder" what'd she do? Chop herself up?
19th Century Law Enforcement Officers.
Atempted affairs.......
RIEP Martha 🌹
Watch out, lest Bloody Bones'll get ye
gaol is pronounced jail. gaol is English spelling, jail is American
I have since been informed of this
56k views!
I know crazy
@@alittlebitofhistory Maybe you need to put the words murder and bloodiest in all your titles. Where appropriate of course. I’m serious. The algorithm may be picking that up.
@@doc2146 True, my Catchpole video has crimes in the title and that has exploded as well.
He should not have been executed.
Pouhahaha i saw the tabernacle but read it tabarnak Pouhahaha
From Québec 😋 hihihi
You talk too fast
It has been pointed out I am now working to improve that.
Why does the narrator keep pronouncing gaol as gowl ? Is it because they only know the american spelling jail ? Up to the 1970's it was still acceptable to spell jail as gaol, but as the yank spelling became the norm the Brit spelling lost it's use totally . Oh well next it'll be colour spelled color .
Yes to honest with you, was a word I had only ever seen written and assumed it was the way of saying it that had simply changed over time, I took a chance and was wrong, it has now been pointed out and will be corrected going forward.
Wait, something's not making sense. How can a woman who's not able to get her hands on her husband's 400 pounds & who filed for bankruptcy, how is she able to sail off to New Zealand?! That doesn't make sense AT ALL! It doesn't sound unbelievable?? Well, it does to me!! Where is she getting the cash to sail from England to NZ?
At that time people were being paid to go to the antipodes
Interesting tale but terrible style of narration.
I am working on improving it
Can this man speaks at a normal speed???I can hardly understand what he is trying to say!!!!
He IS speaking at a normal tempo. The problem lies with you.
It's been pointed out several times especially on this video its partly my speaking and partly my editing I am working on improving both.
No its been pointed out many times on this video but I'm trying to get better.
The death penalty is never, ever acceptable.
STOP saying 'them' when you mean HIM.