Age: 23
Sex: female
Date: 1 Jun 1902
Place: Providence House, Peasenhall, Suffolk
Rose Harsent was found dead at the bottom of the stairs at Providence House, Peasenhall in her nightdress with her throat slit. Her clothes were partly burnt and there was a lot of blood about her left side.
A 45-year-old foreman wheelwright and ex-Sunday school superintendent was tried twice at the Ipswich Assizes for her murder but acquitted after the jury's at both trials disagreed.
see en.wikipedia.org
see National Archives - HD1664/1, HD1664/2/1
see Internet Archive for full trial transcrpt
see Peasenhall History Project
see Western Times - Monday 10 November 1902
see Yorkshire Evening Post - Friday 30 January 1903
see Evening Telegraph - Thursday 22 January 1903
see Tenbury Wells Advertiser - Tuesday 20 January 1903
see Dover Express - Friday 30 January 1903
see Framlingham Weekly News - Saturday 04 April 1903
see Northampton Mercury - Friday 23 January 1903
see Penny Illustrated Paper - Saturday 24 January 1903
see Unsolved 1902
