SOMERSET MURDERS

Softcover. A collection of murderous tales that shocked not only the county but also made headlines throughout the country. They include the cases of Elizabeth and Betty Branch, a mother and daughter who beat a young servant girl to death in Hemington in 1740; 13yr. old Betty Trump, whose throat was cut while walking home at Buckland St. Mary in 1923; factory worker Joan Turner, battered to death in Chard in 1829; George Watkins, killed in a bare knuckle fight outside the Running Horse pub in Yeovil in 1843; Constance Kent, who confessed in 1865 to killing her half-brother at Rode in 1860, nearly 5yrs. earlier; and elderly landlady, Mrs. Emily Bowers, strangled in her bed in Middlezoy in 1947. Illus., Bibliog. and References + Index. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Nr. F.