Scene of Crime
My visit to The Somerset Studies Library in Taunton and Evershot Dorset
Last year I went to The Somerset Studies Library where I found all the newspaper reports of the trial and subsequent hanging of my 5 x great grandfather on 28th March 1795. Last week I visited the village of Evershot in Dorset where he robbed the draper's shop. You can still just about see the name of the owner Grace Kellaway painted on the brickwork, although it looks as if another name has been put over the top of the original. If only she hadn't been unwell that night and kept a candle alight in her bedroom, my grandfather and his two accomlices might have got away with the burglary. As it was by the time they got back to Chideock with the spoils it was getting light and they were seen and arrested some days later. It's amazing that after more than 200 years you can just about read the shop sign!
