Diss Family History Group

THE PEASENHALL TRAGEDY.

ALLEGED CONTEMPT OF COURT.

Application was made to Mr Justice Swinfin Eady sitting as vacation judge to-day for a rule calling upon a man named Stewart to appear before the Court to answer for his alleged contempt in showing at a waxwork exhibition at Great Yarmouth a portrait of Wm Gardiner who stands committed on a coroner’s inquisition and a magistrates’ order on a charge of murdering a servant girl named Rose Harsent, at Peasenhall, Suffolk. It was alleged that in Stewart’s show there was a representation of a kitchen in which a model of the girl was seated in a chair and a portrait model of Gardiner standing behind her in a threatening attitude.

There being a question as to whether such a rule could be made returnable in the vacation, Mr Justice Swinfen Eady adjourned the application until tomorrow for argument.