Crime pictures

	The notorious Dr William Palmer of Rugeley, hanged in 1856. He committed numerous murders by poison, either to obtain insurance moeny or to avoid paying gambling debts. His preferred poison was strychnine.
	Percy Lefroy Mapleton. The Brighton Railway Murder 1881. When arrested, his victim's watch was found hidden in his shoe. Lefroy was found guilty and hanged, but not before he had confessed both to this crime and an earlier murder.
	Weapons used by Henry Wainwright. 1875. He murdered his mistress in the previous year but was caught trying to move her dismembered remains to a new location a year later.
	Adelaide Bartlett, aquitted of the murder by chloroform of her husband in 1886. Sir James Paget, an eminent surgeon stated after the trial "Now it's all over, she should tell us, in the interests of science, how she did it"
	James Abraham Garfield, President of the United States, was shot on 4th July 1881 by Charles Guiteau. He lingered in great pain, and died on 21st September. Guiteau was hanged the following year.
	Guiteau, who had dabbled in religion, politics and cheating hotel landladies, with only any real success in the latter, shot President Garfield for reasons which were never entirely clear. Soon after Garfield's death he wrote to the new President, advising him on Cabinet appointments. Guiteau was hanged the following year.
	Guy Fawkes, hanged drawn and quartered for the infamous Gunpowder Plot of 1605, nowadays annually burned in effigy every November 5th.
	Kate Webster, a plausible thief and liar had been in and out of prison since the age of 18. In 1879, aged 30, she went to work as a maidservant to an elderly widow. She murdered the old lady, dismembered her, boiled the pieces and disposed of them in the Thames. She claimed to have sold the fat residue as dripping.
	In 1551 Thomas Arden, a wealthy property owner, was murdered in his own house by ruffians hired by his wife Alice and her lover, Thomas Mosby. This event formed the subject of a play, author unknown, which was published in 1592 and is still performed today. On 9th September 2000 we saw the play performed in the garden of Arden's house at Faversham. This is the play program.