Diss Family History Group

CHARGE OF MURDER AGAINST A
SUNDAY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT.

At the Ipswich Assizes today, William Gardiner, aged 38, a foreman carpenter and Superintendent of a Primitive Methodist Sunday School at Sibton, was placed upon his trial charged with the murder of Rose Anne Harsent domestic servant. - Mr Dickens K.C., who appeared for the prosecution said the parties resided close to one another at Peasenhall. In May of last year prisoner, who was a married man with a large family commenced (said counsel) immoral relations with the girl. She got into trouble and the case for the prosecution was that the prisoner wrote a letter making a midnight appointment with Harsent, when he murdered her and tried to destroy the body. The learned counsel mentioned that one evening when accused and deceased were entering Peasenhall Chapel, two men overheard the girl say that she had been reading in the Bible about what they were doing and chapter and verse were mentioned. This counsel argued showed the parties relations.

Proceeding.