Speeding!

20/09/1907

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The Stamford Mercury of 25 October records the court appearance of Joseph Hodierne of Coventry. Joseph had been summoned for driving a motorcar at a dangerous speed at Wansford on this day. PC King told the court that Hodierne had been driving at a rate of 18mph. The defendant retorted that he had in fact been driving at 8mph! The court believed PC King and Joseph was fined £7 10s plus 3s costs.

Taken from The Peterborough Book of Days by Brian Jones, The History Press, 2014.

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Stone Age Burial - Was it Murder?

4000-2500 BC

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A Neolithic grave found in Fengate contained a man who had been killed by being shot with a flint arrow, the head of which was found lodged between his ribs. He was accompanied by a woman, a baby and a child, with unknown cause of death. The skeletons are on display in Peterborough Museum.

Why did all four individuals die at the same time and be buried in the same grave? Were they a family?

Was this a very early multiple murder?

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Stone Age Burial - Was it Murder?

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