Village History
.” Mr. W. H. Macdonald has written
to tbe Times to contradict the statement that the crime was prompted by any want of kindness on the part of his sisters, the Misses Macdonald, to the perpetrator. Mr. Maedonald asks the general public to suspend their judgment in this matter till the facts of the case are before them, and not to allow themselves to be influenced in the meantime by report which, he says will doubtless turn out to be without foundation. The prisoner was conveyed in fly to the County Prison Aylesbury the same evening. During the time she remained in the hands of the police at Claydon women were kept charge of her night and day. She became very much excited at times, and the tolling of the church bell on Monday evening, when the body of the deceased was removed from Claydwn to be conveyed for interment to Devonshire, had such effect on her that the bell had to be stopped. Although no professional adviser attended to watch the ease on the prisoner’s behalf at tbe magisterial examination, it is stated that her relations will see that she is provided with legal assistance her trial.
Northampton Mercury – Saturday 20 May 1871
