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CHARLES HUNTRISS - LETTERS HOME

How do you put your Mum's mind at rest? Tell her about a local murder of course.

Thanks for the handkerchiefs which I have received alright.

I was poorly on Friday evening and Saturday and Sunday with a bad headache and sore throuat and as we have no average marks in the Special it has made me very low down in my form.

Have you heard of that murder not 2 miles from here, the son of a printer about ...

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... the best in Greenwich has murdered the daughter of a music master with a hammer, at least suspected and almost certain to have done it but it has not been proved yet. Bill will have seen the paper or not but I suppose I had better send it him in case he has not.

I have not written to Lucy yet though I intend to.

I have nothing more to say and I have to finish some work so I must conclude with love to all, your affectionate son.

PS Who has that chap at the station when I was going away? At Kings Cross when he saw me looking for my box he spoke to me and said that he was doing so to; he was rather tall amd youngish with brown whiskers and small moustache, he know me because he called me "Mr Huntriss", though I did not know him. It is not the first time that chaps have done so to me.

Jane Maria Clouson (1854 – 30 April 1871) was fatally stabbed in the early hours of April 26, 1871, dying in hospital four days later. Edmund Walter Pook (1851–1920) was charged for her murder, but found not guilty. Clouson's murder has been referred to as the Eltham murder. The murder, and ensuing police investigation and prosecution, were the subject of considerable press attention.