Just days after marrying attractive but simple Jane Shorney, John Walford clubbed her to death in despair. He was condemned to death by a judge who wept openly at his drudgery. He was hanged in the same field in which the murder took place, and his body hung for a year in an iron cage, in full sight of his parent's cottage. John was highly intelligent but totally uneducated. As a charcoal burner he had no prospects. He was in love with Ann Rice, the miller's attractive daughter, who returned his love. This 200-year-old crime of passion lives on in folk memory today. Walfords Gibbet is still on the map.T2132013145Company Wessex Actors Company. Director Michael Barry. Music Marck Pearlstone. Performer Mark Freestone. Performer Nicola Pearlstone. Performer Jo Freestone. Performer Richard Randall. Performer Ben Woof. | |
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