Publications
A Marked Card, by Reginald Kyrke, published June 1977 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 3 no. 1, article, pp.11-12) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7967] & The Keep [LIB/501255] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:For what Sarah Card had witnessed was the execution of Mary Ann Geering, the notorious and fiendish poisoner of Guestling.
A Marked Card, by Reginald Kyrke, published March 2013 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 20 no. 5, article, pp.207-209) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508976] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:The place is the Borough of Lewes, and the time is ten minutes to twelve on the morning of Tuesday, 21 August 1849. A large crowd is standing in North Street, Market Street, East Street and Little East Street. Attention is centred on a strange wooden structure projecting above the wall of the House of Correction and County Goal, exactly opposite to the end of Little East Street, where the throng is at its densest - a curious goal post like erection, with a weighted rope stretched dangling from the middle of the crossbeam, almost touching a platform level with the inside of the wall parapet. The top-hatted figures of Superintendent HARPER, Inspectors FLANAGAN and DAWES, with those of eight Police Constables, move with some difficulty through the press of people, who are remarkably quiet and sober. Little East Street is quite choked with sightseers, who overflow into Waterloo Street, where Sergeant AKEHURST keeps watch with nine more Constables.
Sarah CARD, aged eight, is indoors at 16 West Street; her mother is brushing her hair before sending her down town to Priory Street on an errand to her aunt. "Now Sally, you are to go straight there - along Star Lane (now Fisher Street) and down St. Mary's Lane (now Station Street) no dodging about round corners - do you hear me?" She gives her daughter a little shake. Sally hears well enough but says nothing.
Sarah CARD, aged eight, is indoors at 16 West Street; her mother is brushing her hair before sending her down town to Priory Street on an errand to her aunt. "Now Sally, you are to go straight there - along Star Lane (now Fisher Street) and down St. Mary's Lane (now Station Street) no dodging about round corners - do you hear me?" She gives her daughter a little shake. Sally hears well enough but says nothing.