A woman named Mary Johnson is found guilty of sending malicious letters to her neighbor, Mrs. Eliza Woodman. After serving time in prison, the letters resume, causing another trial and prison sentence for Johnson.
“Now before I leave off I must just remind you that I mean to blow your — brains out.” As sign-offs go, this is one of the more tonally confusing, at once chatty and murderously threatening. The author’s cryptic signature, “Iky, one-eyed woman,” is scarcely less bizarre. Both occur at the end of a rambling, expletive-ridden missive delivered in the summer of 1912 to a Mrs. Eliza Woodman, of 52 St. John’s Road, Earlswood, a few miles south of London.
The letter was one of a bundle, all similar, presented before magistrates in the trial of Woodman’s neighbor, Mary Johnson.Johnson was found guilty of sending malicious letters and served six months in prison. When she returned to Earlswood, however, the campaign against Woodman started up again. Another trial, another prison spell for Johnson, and once again, when she came out, the letters to Woodman recommenced: “I am going to burn you all out. I was quite happy at Holloway . I shall kill you burn you out. I shall come and settle you, you shall surely suffer death.” This time, however, the evidence looked shak
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