Word: enfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brought my children home with me to the peace and quiet and friendliness of Enfield [Conn.], but already we have received postcards, letters and telegrams from strangers who dare not sign their names, wishing us evil...
...Baker, a Boston woman who raised him from infancy. But he had a queer notion that his father was big, handsome Dr. Willard B. Segur, who married Mrs. Baker when Harold was seven. The doctor treated Harold better than most men treat their adopted sons. As a youth in Enfield, Mass., Harold often thought the doctor talked to him as though they were of the same flesh & blood...
That was enough for the posse. Despite a boarder's insistence that he and his wife had slept in the loft for weeks, Mary Squires, Mother Wells and all the household were carted off to jail. "The Bawd of Enfield" was branded on the thumb and let go, but Mary Squires was tried for her ten-shilling theft (of the stays) at the Old Bailey before Sir Crisp Gascoyne, Lord Mayor of London...
There were plenty of witnesses to testify that the gypsy woman had been at Abbotsbury in Dorset on the day of the crime, but there were as many who were willing to swear they had seen her at Enfield. Conflicting evidence was further confused by the fact that eleven days had been dropped from the calendar not long before. But when Virtue Hall, the little whore, testified to the truth of Elizabeth's story, the case was finished. Mary Squires was sentenced to hang...
...Buried Secret. New bits of evidence were brought up. A farmer boy from Enfield produced a piece of bloodstained lead which, he said, must have been that which tore Bet's ear as she climbed out of the bawdyhouse window. Mary Squires herself further complicated things by suggesting that she was a witch quite capable of being in both Enfield and Abbotsbury at once...