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Two days later an outraged posse arrived at Susanna Wells's popular brothel in Enfield Wash (a section of London), house they found a raffish crew: susanna Wells herself; Sal Howit, her daughter; a young whore called Virtue Hall; a laborer and his tippling wife; and a hideous old...
That was enough for the posse. Despite a boarder's insistence that he and his wife had slept in the loft for weeks, Mary Squires, Mother Wells and all the household were carted off to jail. "The Bawd of Enfield" was branded on the thumb and let go, but...
There were plenty of witnesses to testify that the gypsy woman had been at Abbotsbury in Dorset on the day of the crime, but there were as many who were willing to swear they had seen her at Enfield. Conflicting evidence was further confused by the fact that eleven days...
"The girl's an impostress," retorted Sir Crisp, the Lord Mayor, promptly ordering the pardon of Mary Squires. Others called her a fraud comparable to the Rabbit Woman, who had set all London by its gullible ears with her claim "to have borne an incredible number of rabbits at...
The Buried Secret. New bits of evidence were brought up. A farmer boy from Enfield produced a piece of bloodstained lead which, he said, must have been that which tore Bet's ear as she climbed out of the bawdyhouse window. Mary Squires herself further complicated things by suggesting...