The interview I liked most, was the one I did to two ladies at The Assembly House. They told me that storytelling was very common in Norwich a hundred years ago. Then it stopped and now it is coming back again. You can find storytelling In the Arts Centre, St Benedict Street, as well as in the Art Festival in May. It is possible to find recitations of epic poems in the Castle Museum I have and anecdote: Asking a Young lady about the storytelling at the Black Horse on our first day here, she answered that it wasn´t a storytelling group but a gathering of people after a funeral. After the funeral the friends and relatives go together to a pub or house, to celebrate the life of the one who has passed. It is customary for people to share stories about the deceased. NORFOLK TALES OF MYSTERY AND MURDER
THE HYPNOTIC MR. CLARKE Neil Storey
SCRIPT
Newspapers´ headlines: “trial for murder”
Hilgay…………born Joe Clark
King´s Lynn……… adopted.3 days old
All Saint´s School. Personable lad , shy
1913. USA. Virginia. Caught up by his mother.
Studies Princetown. Knowledge of psycology
Lynn. Changed/ wordly-wise demeanor
Confined in close friends. Become a hypnotist
Rented a room/ set up a business/ relationships with girls
Power of conversation “out of the ordinar”
Relationship appeared feasible……he woo his prey
Mystic qualities…… diabolical plot….. hynotiza them… for their savings
Source of income: girl in Southampton and Halifax
Charmed and mesmerise them. They write to him
Replied in heart-rending letters: sick in bed unable top ay
1926. A lot of heart boren, deception and hypnotism
caught out and sentenced to 6 moths imprisonment
he moved to Liverpool1928. Reginnal Kennedy
Mary Reginal Fountain.17 Took lodgings
To weave his way into May´s afecctions to avoid
Mary´s mother. Widow 47. Clever
He was too shocked at his inabilty to mesmerise her
He strangled her
Strode into Mar´s rooma and told
He tried to throtle. He manage to escape
Te pólice got son at the sceene
Mrs Fountain body in the siiting room. Lying face downwards
After been cautioned Clarke made a stament:
I am 21………… an hour ago I had no idea of murdenig anyone
Mrs. Fountain talking about gettinon and making good
Get ajob/May/No idea what happened/put my hand around his throat
Threw her over the arm of achair
She murmured:Oh, Eddy bear
Pressed her throat quite hard
She finished gasping
Miss fountain room. Do you still love me? You turn me down I´ll do the same
Gripped by her throat: she screamed and struggled
Disarraged all the furniture/ lips black/revived . Screams atracted all the Street
Electric cord /tied around/ gasp as her mother/ Killing her? / Shoemaker´s knife. Cut/ try to bring her round She recovered
Appeared at Liverpool Police Court
Joseph Reginal Victor Clarke- Slight build and clean-cut features
A cut in his forehead
iIndictment had been read. Called upon to plead ”I plead guilty”
Mr Justice Finlay. Do you realice the implications of your plead and confessions
Yes my lord
Thought it over and understand?
Anything to say? The Clerk of the assize
Justine Finlay donned the black cup a
And passed the sentence of dead
To the gallows at Liverpool prison on Tuesday 12 of March 1929
NORWICH INTERVIEWS
The interview I liked most, was the one I did to two ladies at The Assembly House. They told me that storytelling was very common in Norwich a hundred years ago. Then it stopped and now it is coming back again.
You can find storytelling In the Arts Centre, St Benedict Street, as well as in the Art Festival in May. It is possible to find recitations of epic poems in the Castle Museum
I have and anecdote: Asking a Young lady about the storytelling at the Black Horse on our first day here, she answered that it wasn´t a storytelling group but a gathering of people after a funeral.
After the funeral the friends and relatives go together to a pub or house, to celebrate the life of the one who has passed. It is customary for people to share stories about the deceased.
NORFOLK TALES OF MYSTERY AND MURDER
THE HYPNOTIC MR. CLARKE
Neil Storey
SCRIPT
MATCH THE WORDS TO THEIR DEFINITIONS
A-Errand
B-Demeanour
C-To tide over
D-Feasible
E-Woo
F-Heart-rending
G-Blissfully
H-To sentence
I-Startled
J-To caution
K-Pantry
1-A SHORT TRIP TAKEN TO ATTEND TO SOME BUSINESS OFTEN FOR ANOTHER
2- CAPABLE OF BEING DONE OR CARRIED OUT
3- EXTREMELY HAPPY
4- A SMALL ROOM IN A HOUSE N WHICH FOOD IS STORE
5-TO SURPRISE OR FRIGHTEN S.O.SUDDENLY AND USUALLY NOT SERIOUSLY
6- ENABLE TO SURVIVE TEMPORALILY
7- CAUSING GREAT SADNESS OR SORROW
8- TO COURT A WOMAN
9- TO OFICIALLY STATE THE PUNISHMENT GIVEN TO S.O BY A COURT OF LAW
10- A WAY OF LOOKING AND BEHAVING
11- A SPOKEN OFICIAL WARNING GIVEN TO SO WHO HAS DONE SOMETHING ILLEGAL