Summary
The murder trial of a young girl from Middridge sparked national outrage and led to major changes in the law in the late 19th Century. Today it has lost nothing of its fascination, as a retired County Durham police officer re-opens the case files
His lordship then, amid deep silence, formally passed sentence of death upon the prisoner. The unfortunate girl, who had stood with her face buried in her handkerchief, sobbed convulsively while his lordship spoke the words of doom, seemed utterly prostrated by the terrible sentence and was born from the dock by the female attendant.See the full content of this document
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John North - Cold Case
SO ended The Northern Echo report, Monday, July 22, 1885, on the murder trial of 17-year-old Sarah Dunn from Middridge, near Shildon, charged with killing her infant daughter Bertha, aged 15 months.
Poor Sarah, of course, was little more than a child herself ? and had unmistakably been left hold...See the full content of this document
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