The Woman in Black and the Murder of Augusta Dawes | True Crime 1894
News of the Times | Episode 557 | 1894
🕯️ A 19th-century mystery that begins with a murder... and spirals into urban legend.

In the winter of 1894, one of London’s most refined boroughs was struck by two chilling tales — one whispered behind lace curtains, the other screamed across the front pages.

First: a shocking early-morning discovery near Addison Road Bridge. A woman found dead in the street — throat slashed, blood pooling on the pavement, and a cherrywood walking stick left behind. Her name? Unknown.

Then, just days later, a new terror crept in:
A veiled woman in black, described as gliding silently through Kensington’s polished streets, began attacking respectable women in broad daylight, striking their faces with a concealed blade — and walking calmly away.

Newspapers dubbed it “The Kensington Outrages.”
The public whispered it might be Jack the Ripper in disguise.

Was it all just coincidence?
Or was something darker — and more deliberate — hiding beneath Kensington’s genteel façade?

🕯️ In tonight’s Further Particulars segment:
We visit a haunted crossroads in Buckinghamshire… where a headless woman in black is said to appear before passing farmers — and float, quite rudely, through their hedges.

Hosted by Robin Coles

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The Nolagh House of Horror: Ireland’s 1898 Family Massacre
News of the Times | Episode 556 | 1898
On a bitter January night in 1898, neighbours in rural County Cavan made a grim discovery: a silent farmhouse, a smashed-in door, and a scene of almost unspeakable horror.

Inside, the bodies of Mary Reilly, her daughter Mary King, and two small children lay motionless on the straw-strewn floor. Their skulls had been crushed with a heavy spade. One child had been smothered beneath its mother's corpse. The other—barely a toddler—may have survived two more days, dying slowly from cold, hunger, and fear.

Even the rats had arrived before the authorities.

This shocking case rocked Victorian Ireland: a locked-door family annihilation, bitter domestic violence, and a trial that revealed more questions than answers. Follow the journey from the chilling crime scene through legal wranglings in Cavan and Belfast, ending with a verdict so unexpected that even the Lord Chief Justice was left stunned.

💥 "Transcended in horror everything comprised in my experience of crime." — Lord Chief Justice O’Brien

🕯 FURTHER PARTICULARS SEGMENT:
We leave the blood-stained fields of Cavan for an icy January in London, where top-hatted gentlemen and bonneted ladies gather—white roses pinned to lapels—to mourn a beheaded king. Over 250 years after Charles I lost his crown (and his head), the Jacobite faithful still marched, toasted, and whispered of royal restoration.

A bizarre blend of political nostalgia, public theatre, and candlelit reverence—this is one of history’s strangest cult followings.

☕ So grab a warm cup of tea, draw the curtains, and let the tales unfold—from one of the darkest farmhouse murders in Ireland’s history… to a wintertime ceremony for a king few ever liked.

👤 Narrated by Robin Coles

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The Scissors Murder Mystery: Unsolved Brixton Crime Shocks Edwardian London
News of the Times | Episode 555| 1900
In May 1900, the body of Mary Waknell was discovered in a quiet Brixton basement — savagely stabbed nearly forty times, many wounds inflicted with her own sewing scissors. No forced entry. No signs of struggle. And no one was ever convicted.

Was her killer a jealous husband? A man known only as “Jack”? Or one of many nighttime visitors society refused to acknowledge?

In this episode of News of the Times, we follow the cold, bloodstained trail of one of Edwardian London’s most brutal unsolved crimes. Using original newspaper reports and forensic details long buried in the archives, we uncover a tale of judgment, hypocrisy, and the quiet brutality faced by women who lived outside the lines of respectability.

If you're drawn to forgotten murders, historical injustice, and the atmospheric fog of Edwardian London — this case is not to be missed.

🔎 Featuring:
• A killer who vanished without a trace
• Clues hidden in postcards and pawn slips
• A society that blamed the victim
• And a room that tells a hauntingly silent story

☕ Pour a strong cup of tea and settle in — tonight’s tale is one for the darker corners of the parlour.

🥊 Further Particulars
Three hooligans. One well-dressed man with fast hands.
Let’s just say their Fleet Street mugging didn’t go to plan — especially when the would-be victim turned out to be a champion boxer with no patience for nonsense.
Teeth were lost.
Dignity was not recovered.

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