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

  • 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





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