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[COSMORAMA]

Stanfield Hall Murders. Now exhibiting at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209, Regent Street. Models of Stanfield Hall, the seat of the late J. Jerry Esq. ; and Pot-Ash Farm, lately occupied by the assassin Rush.

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Also, may be had a complete Narrative of every particular connected with the above Murders, with an exact likeness of Rush, & correct plans of Stanfield Hall, and Pot-Ash Farm, also a survey of the two Estates, copies of the plans, &c, made for the late Trial at Norwich. Open from Ten till Five, and from Seven till Nine. Admission, one shilling. [London] : Crozier & Mullin, Printers, 39, Silver St, Golden Square, [1849]. Handbill, 187 x 128 mm, lithograph-printed recto only on onion-skin paper; a faint old horizontal fold and very light creasing, but an excellent example.

‘The Murders at Stanfield Hall were a notorious Victorian era double murder on 28 November 1848 that was commemorated in print, pottery, wax, as well as a novel by Joseph Shearing. It was the inspiration for the 1948 English film Blanche Fury. The victims, Isaac Jermy and his son Isaac Jermy were shot and killed on the porch and in the hallway of their mansion, Stanfield Hall, Norwich. The perpetrator, James Bloomfield Rush (1800–1849), their delinquent tenant-farmer, who had conducted a complex, devious scheme to defraud them of their property and their lives, was hanged at Norwich Castle on 21 April 1849. The unwitting accomplice to the attempted fraud was Emily Sandford, whom Rush had employed as a governess and who was also his mistress.’ (Wiki.)