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Melancholy tale ends in fatal temple yard murder
The report details a chilling sequence as a man, distressed by bailiffs, fatally slays his partner Ursula Moore and others. Mrs. Moore recalls a violent throat cutting. a lip-smacking struggle ends with the killer dying. A surgeon and witnesses describe a deadly rampage and interment in Temple Churchyard.
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Ursula Moore
Mr. Levinge
Temple
Horrex
Deford
Bradshaigh
Roger Bradshaigh, Bart
Wigan
Lancashire
Chalmly Deceas
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards
Hackney
William Cheeseman
Anne Green
Turky Company
Spithead
Matilda
Wild
Smyrna
East India Company
Derby
Greenland
Robert Griffin
Lord Chamberlain
Thomas Soaper
Edward Villiers
Earl of Jersey
Merston Bygott
Froomelwood
Somerset
Daydeceas
Yorkshire
John Duke of
Montagu
William Conolly
Privy Council
Ireland
Aldborough
Suffolk
Dublin
Earl of Strafford
William Harris
St. James’s Church
Miss Allen
Allen
Piccadilly
House of Commons
Marham-street
Westminster
George Wright
Principality of Wales
Thomas Farrington
Efy
Principality
Southwark
Antigua
John Cotton
Thomas Gate
Willian Clarke
Edmund Wilque
John Hickman
Edward Jasper
William Jones
Shock -Eggerton
Merchant
Aldgate
Temple-Bar