Λονδίνο: η πρωτεύουσα των φόνων

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διαδραστικός χάρτης: κάθε καρφίτσα έχει πληροφορίες για ένα διαφορετικό φόνο, πολλές φορές με αφήγηση. Η πρωτεύουσα των δολοφονιών

[Saturn]

Τύφλα να ΄χει ο Αποκόρωνας με τα μαύρα τα στενά του

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Sexually motivated murder in churchyard

On Monday the morrow of St. Edmund the King [20 Nov.1300], Cristina Minster was found dead with a deep stab-wound in the churchyard of St Mary Woolchurch-Haw in the Walbrook Ward.

According to the jurors, a certain William Sawyer, who came from Carshalton, met Cristina at the Eastern corner of the churchyard as it was getting dark. He asked her to spend the night with him. When she refused and tried to escape, William, moved with anger, drew an Irish knife and stabbed her under the right shoulder-blade, causing a wound that was six inches deep, which caused her immediate death.

No witnesses were present. After the crime the neighbours immediately raised the alarm and William was captured and taken to Newgate prison. He was tried on 30 Nov 1301. The jury found him guilty and he was hanged.

αυτόν τώρα πως τον πιάσανε αφού δεν υπήρχαν μάρτυρες;

[Saturn]

Θα τον έπιασαν με το ματωμένο μαχαίρι στα χέρια ξερω γω

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χαμός

Planned gang-rape ends in mayhem

On the Wednesday after the Feast of Annunciation [25 Mar 1325] the Coroner and Sheriffs learned that Walter Benington, a ‘tailour’, had been found dead in the parish of St Michael in Bridge Ward. They went to the address and empanelled a jury, before opening the inquest.

The jurors found that on Sunday night, the 24 March 1325, Walter Benington and 17 unidentified companions had come to the alehouse of Gilbert Morden, a stockfish-monger, with stones in their hoods, swords, knives and other weapons. They were sitting there and drinking four gallons of beer while lying in wait to abduct Emma, the daughter of the late Robert Pourte, who was under Gilbert Morden’s protection. Realising that this was their intention, Gilbert’s wife Mabel and Geoffrey, his brewer, asked Walter and his friends to go away. The group replied that they would remain where they were to spend their money, welcome or unwelcome, as it was, after all, a public house. Taking Emma with her, Mabel then went up to her room. Walter and his friends became angry and assaulted Geoffrey and Robert and the other people who lived in the house. They then struck Robert on the head with stones. He raised the hue and cry and ran away into the High Street. Walter went after him with a knife in one hand and a stiletto in the other, meaning to kill him. At this point, Benedict Warde and some other neighbours came along to calm them down, but Walter attacked Benedict and refused to keep the King’s peace. Benedict then seized a ballstave from a stranger, and bopped Walter with it so that he fell to the ground at the entrance of the lane. A couple that was there, Walter of Arderne and his wife Christina, carried the injured man into St. Michael’s Lane, where they set him down on the pavement near the fountain. He was there all night. The next morning he was carried into Geoffrey de Warde’s house, where he died instantly.

The jurors found that among the witnesses were Geoffrey the Brewer, Robert Morden, Walter and Benedict, and a number of others whose names they did not know. The hue and cry had been raised by Christina. The jurors reported that Benedict had absconded, but they did not know where he had gone or who might be hiding him. He owned no goods or chattels. There were no other suspects. The Sheriffs were instructed to arrest Benedict as and when he might be found in their bailiwick.

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Servant comes to aid of farrier's wife, with fatal consequences

On the Sunday after the Feast of St Hilary [13 Jan 1325], Stephen Fleming was found dead at a house leased by William of Kent, a farrier, from Peter of Senecamp in the parish of St. Werburga [later parish of St John the Evangelist]. Acting on information, the Coroner and Sheriffs went there and empanelled jurors from Bread Street and the three neighbouring wards, namely Cordwainer, Farringdon Within and Castle Baynard, after which they opened the inquest.
The jurors found that at dusk on the previous Friday a quarrel had arisen in the upstairs sitting-room of the house between William and his wife Margery. When William’s servant Stephen heard raised voices, he became angry, pulled out his dagger and went upstairs to kill his master. At this, William seized a faggot-pole and fatally struck Stephen on the left side of his head so that he took to his bed, where he received the last rites and died at midnight.
The jurors found that only William, Stephen and Margery had been present when the crime was committed. Margery had not consented to the crime, neither was anyone else involved. William had immediately run away, and the jurors did not know where he went or who took him in. As to his goods and chattels, they found that he had a hundred horseshoes without nails, and various tools of his trade worth five shillings, now in the safe-keeping of Benedict of Foulsham. The Sheriffs were instructed to arrest William as soon as he was found in their bailiwick.

[Saturn]

Έχω μια γνωστή εγκληματολόγο στην Αγγλία, να της τα στείλω να κάνει ένα τσεκ;

[Yochanan]

Servant comes to aid of farrier's wife, with fatal consequences

On the Sunday after the Feast of St Hilary [13 Jan 1325], Stephen Fleming was found dead at a house leased by William of Kent, a farrier, from Peter of Senecamp in the parish of St. Werburga [later parish of St John the Evangelist]. Acting on information, the Coroner and Sheriffs went there and empanelled jurors from Bread Street and the three neighbouring wards, namely Cordwainer, Farringdon Within and Castle Baynard, after which they opened the inquest.
The jurors found that at dusk on the previous Friday a quarrel had arisen in the upstairs sitting-room of the house between William and his wife Margery. When William’s servant Stephen heard raised voices, he became angry, pulled out his dagger and went upstairs to kill his master. At this, William seized a faggot-pole and fatally struck Stephen on the left side of his head so that he took to his bed, where he received the last rites and died at midnight.
The jurors found that only William, Stephen and Margery had been present when the crime was committed. Margery had not consented to the crime, neither was anyone else involved. William had immediately run away, and the jurors did not know where he went or who took him in. As to his goods and chattels, they found that he had a hundred horseshoes without nails, and various tools of his trade worth five shillings, now in the safe-keeping of Benedict of Foulsham. The Sheriffs were instructed to arrest William as soon as he was found in their bailiwick.

kerato osfrainomai

[Yochanan]

οταν ειδα τον τιτλο μου εκανε εντυπωση που ειναι στον τομεα Ιστορια.
λέει τιπτ για επιθέσεις με οξέα από αλχημιστές; ρωτάω, ήρεμα, γιατί και οι OG αλχημιστές μουσουλμάνοι ητανε

[Σενέκας]

οταν ειδα τον τιτλο μου εκανε εντυπωση που ειναι στον τομεα Ιστορια.
λέει τιπτ για επιθέσεις με οξέα από αλχημιστές; ρωτάω, ήρεμα, γιατί και οι OG αλχημιστές μουσουλμάνοι ητανε

δεν έχει πέσει στην αντίληψή μου, αλλά υπάρχει αντίστοιχος χάρτης απο την Οξφόρδη, όπου οι δράστες είναι συχνά αναρχομπάχαλοι φοιτητές

Scholar is killed by students and a bailiff

On the Friday before the feast of St. Botulph the Abbot [14 June 1303], on the morning, John de Osgodeby, a scholar, was found dead in a street in the parish of St. Edward in Oxford. Robert de Wycombe was the first to find him dead, and at once raised the cry. On the same day the body was seen by John de Oseneye the coroner. He had received three mortal blows on the left side of the head with a sword up to the brain. The inquest was taken on the same day before the coroner by the oath of jurors of the parishes of St. Edward, St. Mary Virgins, St. Aldate and St. Martin. The jurors say upon their oath that on the preceding Thursday, about the hour of curfew, Thomas de Weldon, a scholar, and John le Northern, his bailiff, and Nicholas de Vylers of Ireland, a scholar, met John de Osgodeby in the Parish of St. Edward. There they attacked him with swords and killed him, and immediately they all fled. Nothing could be found of the goods of the said Thomas. John le Northerne had nothing in goods. The goods and chattels of Nicholas de Vylers amounted to possessions to the value of 13s 11 d. as in clothes and books; Johannes de Dokelinton and Johannes de Beverlaco will answer for them to the bailiffs. The pleas of the aforesaid finder are Roger Mortimer, tailor, and Bernard Kempe, tailor.

[Saturn]

[Yochanan]

πόσες φορές να απαιτήσεις να ξαναδώσει κάποιος το Ordinary Differential Equations I ; Νισάφι πια, τι θέλουνε; Αίμα;
αντιπαραβάλλω την ιστορία απο το μεταπολεμικο Ρέθεμνος με την γερμανική χειροβομβίδα που έσκασε στο σπίτι χημικού που είχε κόψει στο τότε γυμνάσιο έναν ντελικανή.

[Yochanan]

Δεν είμαι σίγουρος βεβαια αν δεν ηταν μαθηματικος αλλά το χημικός ταιρίαζει πολυ καλύτερα σε καθε περιπτωση. Ιντα σου φταιξε μπρε πάρορε το κοπέλι;

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κάρχιες!

A drunk woman and a revenge killing outside a tavern

On Friday after the Decollation of St. John Bapt. [i.e. on 1 Sept 1301], the Coroner and Sheriffs were informed that Walter of Elmley, a chaplain, had died of unnatural causes in Wood Street, in the parish of St. Alban Woodstreet in the Cripplegate Ward. They summoned a jury from the neighbouring wards and inquired what had happened.

The jurors said that on late Wednesday afternoon, Alice Quernbetere saw workmen of Thomas Sely preparing the ground for a new house, which was to be built on Wood Street at the corner of St Olave Silver Street. Being drunk she abused them, calling them “tredekeiles” or mud stompers. One of the workmen then drew her to himself by the hand, and told her she should work and tread the ground with them, bumping her maliciously on the ground. Alice then got up and went to her mistress Elena Hellebole, from whom she rented her house, to complain about the men. Elena then went to the building site, calling the men ribalds and other insults. An unknown bypasser reprimanded Elena for her language. She abused him, calling him a thief, and he called her a whore. Elena threatened him saying that before night the matter would be squared. She then sent for three men: Walter the Chaplain, a tenant of hers called Roger Skirmisher, and an unknown person. She asked them to avenge her on the stranger whom they would find in the tavern of Agnes of Nottingham. The three men bought a bundle of wood for a farthing [i.e. about a fourth of a labourer’s daily wage], from which each man furnished himself with a stick and hurried to the tavern. At the entrance they met a certain John of Melksham. Walter the Chaplain asked him if he was the one who had abused his mistress Elena, and immediately started hitting John on the head and the arm. John then drew a dagger, seeing which Walter turned to draw his knife with his right arm. However, John struck Walter with the dagger under the shoulder, inflicting a wound an inch and a half broad and reaching to the heart, of which Walter immediately died. The jurors said that nobody was present except Walter and the aforesaid evildoers.

After the crime John de Melkesham immediately fled to the church of St. Olave near the Tower, whence he escaped at night. Roger Skirmisour fled, but the jury did not know whither. The possessions of John of Melksham were valued at 29s 3d. The jurors didn’t know anything about the stranger, he had no possessions.

Alice Quernbetere, Elena Hellebole and four neighbours were attached to appear, in due course, in court

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Brutal murder of Brother Henry of Ireland by a fellow-monk

On Friday the feast of St Barnabas the Apostle [11 June 1316] the Coroner and Sheriffs were informed that Henry of Ireland, an elderly brother of the Hospital of St Thomas of Acre, lay dead at the hospital, opposite the conduit in Cheapside. The Coroner and Sheriffs made their way there and empanelled a jury before opening the inquest.

The jurors found that early on the Saturday morning after the feast of St Dunstan last past in the chapter-house, Henry had accused brother Richard of Southampton, Master of the Chapel, of having embezzled the rents and properties belonging to the chapel and of denying the brothers the benefits that they were accustomed to receive. Infuriated by this accusation, Richard [who was a burly man] then overpowered Henry, ripped his cassock and laid into him, punching and slapping and shaking the living daylights out of him. Thus beaten, Henry struggled to return to his cell, where he languished until the Friday morning before dying from the rough treatment he had received.

Richard remained in the chapel until the arrival of the Coroner and Sheriffs. However, after the inquest he was discovered out of sanctuary, arrested and taken to the prison at Newgate. The jurors found that only Richard and Henry had been present during the incident, and that Richard was the only suspect. When Henry’s body was viewed, bruising was seen on his shoulders and sides.