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The Blenheim Swamp Slayer Master Sleuth Case
A Canadian true crime tale recounts Detective John Wilson Murray’s pursuit of Lord Somerset Birchall, who lured English youths to Canada via scam farms, murdered Benwell in Blenheim swamp, and attempted further prey. Birchall was captured, tried at Woodstock, and hanged in 1890 after a landmark cross-Atlantic case.
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John W. Murray
Blenheim Swamp
Eastwood
Ontario
Canada
Joseph
George Tid- Tidge
John Wilson Murray
Toronto
Murray
England
Princeton
Blenheim
Benwell
Paris
John Wilson Surray
Department of Criminal Investigation
Nimgel
Fred Bentwell
Benswell
Benieman
London
Niagara Falls
Falls
Reginald Birchall
Birchan
Binchall
New York
Birchall
Telegraph Office
Birchad
United States
Pelly
R. P. Pelly
Walden Place
Saffron Walden
Essex
Oxford
Lord Lansdowne
Link
J. R. Burchall
Primrose Club
Park Place
St. James
Burchall
McDonald
Geveral
Woodstock
Welly
St. Leonisc
Stafford
Buffalo
Hellmuth
Canada Side
Tireball
Birehall
Scotland Yard
J. R. Birchall
Joseph Birchall
Church
Kirk
Whalley
Florence Stevenson
David Stevenson
London and Northwestern
Birchadl
Picadilly
C. Stewart Sproat
America
Metropolitan
Stafford House
William H. Poole
Grand Trunk
Windsor
Matthew Virtue
Hastwood
Miss Lockhart
Blandford
Alfred Hayward
Hastwood Station
Jon Crosby
Blenheim Township
Governor's Road
Alice Fallon
Niagara
Ainister
Firehall
Somerset & Co
Brock Street
Stevenson
Primroge Club
Col
Cheltenham
Lord
Somerset
Lord Somerset
Pine
James Rapsoin
Charles Buck
Fastwood
Gables Corners
Misa Alice Smith
Station
John Hayward
Wastwood
James Hayward
George Hay
Wagland
Coil
Col Benwell
Birchell
Hunging
Fine Pond
Pine Pond
Elridges
Hogun
France
Germany
Italy